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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] version command line option
From: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
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To: Pascal Erb <pascal.erb@gruo.de>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Pascal Erb <pascal.erb@gruo.de> wrote:
> But it seems to be
> impossible to do something like
>
> qemu --version
>
> to find out some version information. Since this should be easy to implement,
> I'd do this. Any informations how to proceed?

I came up with this but that looks overly complex and fragile :-)

qemu-x86_64 -h | head -1 | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/,$//'


Laurent