Am 05.02.2011 16:17, schrieb Bernardo Barros: > yep! > > could you give an example of a bash function that gets the $pkgver from a file? > Just paste Gaetans two lines into a file: . `pwd`/PKGBUILD echo $pkgver Save it in a directory which is in your PATH variable and make it executeable. If you mean with file an archive from AUR, then you have to untar it first: tar -xzf `pwd`/$1.tar.gz cd `pwd`/$1 . `pwd`/PKGBUILD echo $pkgver # Clean up cd .. rm -r $1 You must call this script with the package name obtained, e.g. pkgver dccnightmare