[Hugs-users] Print version and quit

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Leif Frenzel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there an option for Hugs to just show a version string and quit
> immediately? (Could not find anything like that in the manual, and some
> plausible candidates I tried had not the desired effect.)
> 


Have you tried something like this (quick and dirty; some more 
sofisticated Perl solution might be suggested but I am not a Perl expert):


echo :Q|hugs|grep Version|tr -d "|_"

Release will print (e. g.):

    Version: November 2002

A CVS snapshot based executable will print (e. g.):

    Version: 20040720

To be more precise, some leading and trailing blanks may remain. But I'm 
sure you can figure it out how to remove them (and the word Version: as 
well if needed).

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Dmitry M. Golubovsky
       South Lyon, MI