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pasman pasmański
Asked: 2022-04-14 21:28:01 +0800 CST

Get latest revision of snap package

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Is possible to get latest revision of snap package in short form ?

Something like snap info package, but output only latest revision number.

Best Regards.

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2 Answers

  1. If you want just the version number for a given snap, then you can do this:

    snap list | grep package | awk '{print $2}'

    Using this for vlc (on my system) results in the following value: 3.0.16.

    How This works:

    Command Action
    snap list List all snaps
    | and
    grep package Grab line(s) matching package
    | and
    awk '{print $2}' Return just the second column (version)
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  2. As wrote mook765, revision number is different from version number. But method used by matigo may be modified to get revision number:

    $snap info vlc|awk '/latest\/stable/ {gsub("[()]","",$4);print $4 }'
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    From unknown reason this script works slow, you may use this:

    snap info vlc|perl -ane 'if (/latest\/stable/) { $F[3]=~ /(\d+)/; print($1);}'
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