how to determine kernel version

[Jeff Vian]

William Hooper wrote:

>Harry Putnam said:
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>>Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> writes:
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>>>So modify the rpm statement  to "rpm =qa | grep kernel " or "rpm -qa
>>>kernel\*"  and it WILL show all kernels installed with rpm ( as well
>>>as all other kernel packages, source, etc) .
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>>A typo I guess `=' but this:
>>   rpm -qa|grep  kernel\*
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>The above doesn't have a grep.
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>>won't show anything different than:
>>   rpm -qa|grep kernel
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>More to the point:
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>     rpm -qa kernel
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>Is also the same.
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No, these are NOT the same.

The first gives:
$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.4.20-8
kernel-2.4.20-8
kernel-doc-2.4.20-8

as does:
$ rpm -qa | grep kernel\*
kernel-source-2.4.20-8
kernel-2.4.20-8
kernel-doc-2.4.20-8

and this is the same result as well:
$ rpm -qa kernel\*
kernel-source-2.4.20-8
kernel-2.4.20-8
kernel-doc-2.4.20-8


but yours gives:
$ rpm -qa kernel
kernel-2.4.20-8