packageversion

#!/bin/bash
function ver () {
  if (( $# == 0 )); then
    printf 'Need at least 1 argument\n' >&2
    return 1
  fi
  fSymbol="${1:0:1}"
  chrlen=${#1}
  anySymbols=`echo "$1" | tail -c"$chrlen"`;
  packages=`dpkg -l | grep "$1"  | awk '{print $2 "\t" $3}' | grep -E -w "^[$fSymbol]$anySymbols[^-]+"`
  echo "$packages";
}
ver "$1"