Trying to create a user script and need to be able to look up what the current version of some plugins are. Where is this info stored, and how would I read that info?

Take a look at any of the .plg files in /boot/config/plugins.

13 minutes ago, trurl said:

Take a look at any of the .plg files in /boot/config/plugins.

Maybe you can help me out with one of them to get me started.

 

I want to get the version number from user.scripts plugin and then store that info in another file (we will call it old_userscripts_ver.txt).

 

 

So my script would first check if the old_userscripts_ver.txt exists (Which I know how to do)

Then if it does not exist, I need to create it with the version info from user.scripts plugin

If it does exist I need to compare the versions from the original file vs my file, if they are the same then echo "Same" if different then echo "Different"

 

Thanks for the help.

Fist part of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE PLUGIN [
<!ENTITY name "TestFile">
<!ENTITY author "Andrew Zawadzki">
<!ENTITY version "2020.05.30">
<!ENTITY md5 "d079ca6e025086978db8b2f7174ac448">
<!ENTITY launch "Settings/Userscripts">
<!ENTITY plugdir "/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/&name;">
<!ENTITY github "Squidly271/user.scripts">
<!ENTITY pluginURL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/&github;/master/plugins/&name;.plg">
]>
<PLUGIN name="&name;" author="&author;" version="&version;" launch="&launch;" pluginURL="&pluginURL;" min="6.3.3" icon="file-text-o" support="http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=49992.0">
  <CHANGES>
###2020.05.30
- Fix Name / Description containing HTML when editing

###2020.05.11
- Fix display aberration caused by debugging info

 

 

I have tried 

grep '<!ENTITY version' /boot/config/plugins/user.scripts.plg

 

but get no result

 

when I try 

grep '2020.05.30' /boot/config/plugins/user.scripts.plg

 

it grabs the first comment line instead.

###2020.05.30

 

I belive the issue is <! part. how can I search for that?

Edited July 30, 20205 yr by almulder

Never mind, I am figuring out a different way.

Just do

plugin version /boot/config/plugins/user.scripts.plg

 

9 hours ago, bonienl said:

Just do

plugin version /boot/config/plugins/user.scripts.plg

 

Thanks for the option but it does not work when running it under user scripts. I do have a workaround I am trying.

2 hours ago, almulder said:

Thanks for the option but it does not work when running it under user scripts. I do have a workaround I am trying.

Maybe try specifying the full path to the plugin command, which you can get with

which plugin