how to determine kernel version

[Harry Putnam]

Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> writes:

> So modify the rpm statement  to "rpm =qa | grep kernel " or "rpm -qa
> kernel\*"  and it WILL show all kernels installed with rpm ( as well
> as all other kernel packages, source, etc) .

A typo I guess `=' but this:  
   rpm -qa|grep  kernel\*

won't show anything different than:
   rpm -qa|grep kernel

I think you're mixing up regular expressions and globbing