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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:29:41 +0200
From: Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds@oversi.com>
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Great! the usage of -C escaped me, and  I was wondering why I was 
getting bad output...
Thanks,
Amit

Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:05 +0200, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>   
>> Given the following:
>> # qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage
>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5
>>
>> How do I safely extract the "2.1.4.5"?
>>
>> (I don't necessarily need to use qlist. Just want to get the version of 
>> an installed package within a bash script)
>>
>>     
>
>
> qatom $(qlist -ICv sys-apps/portage) | awk '{print $3}'
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