diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index 72876df..8f8df931 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
 'NR==1{print "nfs-utils             ", $NF}'
 
 ls -l `ldd /bin/sh | awk '/libc/{print $3}'` | sed \
--e 's/\.so$//' | awk -F'[.-]'   '{print "Linux C Library        " \
-$(NF-2)"."$(NF-1)"."$NF}'
+-e 's/\.so$//' | sed -e 's/>//' | \
+awk -F'[.-]' '{print "Linux C Library        "$(NF-1)"."$NF}'
 
 ldd -v > /dev/null 2>&1 && ldd -v || ldd --version |head -n 1 | awk \
 'NR==1{print "Dynamic linker (ldd)  ", $NF}'