In linux-Shell, how does one obtain the latest PHP version?

I need to get the latest PHP version number in Shell, and then check whether the server needs to be upgraded. For example, the download from Apache is www. apache. orgdisthttpd, which lists all versions. I can use elinks and awk to easily extract the latest version, but php needs... I need to get the latest PHP version number in Shell, and then check whether the server needs to be upgraded.

For example, the download from Apache is a http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/, which lists all versions. I can easily extract the latest version through elinks and awk, but what does php do?

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I need to get the latest PHP version number in Shell, and then check whether the server needs to be upgraded.

For example, the download from Apache is a http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/, which lists all versions. I can easily extract the latest version through elinks and awk, but what does php do?

Do you mean to parse html through awk and then parse version number?

Current stable in the http://www.php.net/downloads.php Link

Curl http://www.php.net/downloads.php | grep "Current stable" | awk '{print $3 }'

You can obtain the latest version number.
Then, you can use php-v to obtain the php version number.

Thank you! The problem has been solved.