ver_linux: net-tools, look for numerical input, not field number

Rely on regex to find the version number, rather than rely on numerical input to be found in a particular input field.
Proposed implementation also eliminates the necessity to invoke 'grep' + 'awk'.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index 2269803dddb5..4ef1b7d370a9 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -140,8 +140,12 @@ awk '/version/{
         substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH))
 }'
 
-ifconfig --version 2>&1 | grep tools | awk \
-'NR==1{print "Net-tools             ", $NF}'
+ifconfig --version 2>&1 |
+awk '/tools/{
+        match($0, /[0-9]+([.]?[0-9]+)+/)
+        printf("Net-tools\t\t%s\n",
+        substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH))
+}'
 
 # Kbd needs 'loadkeys -h',
 loadkeys -h 2>&1 | awk \