>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Perhaps it may be nice to have a pacman flag to obtain just the >> > version string. I'll file a feature request, but before that anyone >> > has an comments on why it would be useless or a bad idea? Use expac: $ expac %v -S virtualbox 4.1.18-3 (I don't have it installed, so I had to use '-S').