linux-kernel - Re: how to extract 'uname -r' string from bzImage without booting it ?

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Message-ID: <874oxgmvur.wl%vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:17:32 +0100
From:	Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@...il.com>
To:	Victoria Muntean <vikimun@...il.com>
Cc:	Kernel Linux <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to extract 'uname -r' string from bzImage without booting it ?

At Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:09:38 +0200, Victoria Muntean wrote:

> How can make (or find) a script or utility
> that can extract  'uname -r' string from bzImage without booting it ?

$ strings vmlinuz | grep -P -o \\d\\.\\d\\.\\d{2}
2.6.29

-- 
wbr, Vitaly
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