NAME

version − extract version information from a file

SYNOPSIS

version [ −k ] [ −K ] [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

Version attempts to extract version information from files distributed by Acorn.  It produces a one line string per file which should identify the file uniquely. 

The options direct various kernel version information to be extracted and printed:

−K Extracts a kernel version string similar to that produced for executable binaries. 

−k Extracts a long string used by ‘/etc/rc’ to build the message of the day file ‘/etc/motd’. 

Files which are not provided by Acorn or are not executable binaries do not have encoded version information at the front. In an attempt to provide a unique identity for such files, version uses an arithmetic sum of the output of ident(1) as the version identifier.

SEE ALSO

ident(1)

AUTHOR

Andy Bray

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  Revision 1.3 of 20/10/88