Re: Can't Parse "snort -V"

["Dale L. Handy" <dhandy () nitrodata com>]

Use the following instead, since the version (and much of the other 
information) is being written to stderr:

   snort -V >versionfile.txt 2>&1

This will redirect both stdout and stderr to the file versionfile.txt.


John Crain wrote:

> I'm attempting to automate snort version on multiple
> sensors.  However, I can't parse "snort -V"...  snort
> -V dumps to the screen and I can't grep or awk it.  I
> can't even dump snort -V to a file with "snort -V >
> file".
>
> Any suggestions on how to grab the version number as
> part of a command line function?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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