Help needed with script to verify the version of BIND

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have tried thought of using instfix -ivqc | grep BIND , but this did not return the result I was looking for; it seem to list out the the different patches that had been applied to BIND. I'm actually looking for overall version, like you'd get when checking the OS level for instance.

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if your version is recent then

named -v

should tell you (you may need the full path to named if it is not in your path i.e. /usr/local/sbin/named -v)
otherwise look here for some interesting pointers:
The FreeBSD Diary -- What version of bind are you running?