[Remind-Fans] command line option for remind version number
Rob Hamrick
rphamric at uchicago.edu
Sat Jan 5 12:39:27 EST 2008
> It's not obvious. This works in bash; not sure about standard
> Bourne shell:
>
> VER=`remind - <<'EOF'
> banner %
> MSG [version()]%
> EOF`
>
> echo "Version of Remind is: $VER"
That gets the job done, thanks, and I suppose it's better than
something like:
remind 2>&1 | grep 'REMIND' | awk '{ print $2; }'
I'd still like to see Remind have a more standard command line switch
that prints the version number to standard out. I guess that's a
feature request.
Best,
Rob
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