On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:28:38PM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > rpm -q --qf "%{version}\n" `rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release` Instead of hard-coding the filename, how about using the Provides: that is in the package? rpm -q --whatprovides --qf "%{version}\n" redhat-release