That's why they mentioned `grep -v`. Go look it up. It doesn't mean verbose OR version.

Doubt you'd be printing out a version number in a shell script though.

You may want to compare a version number of a command to make sure it's bigger than (or equal to) the minimum version required by your script, though.

>-v, --invert-match

> Selected lines are those not matching any of the specified patterns.

For the lazy.

Edit: I don't know hackernews formatting and I'm among the lazy, so... Marked as "won't fix".