diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index ab69ecefedbd9..7ac0e309be098 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -12,12 +12,9 @@ echo ' '
 uname -a
 echo ' '
 
-gcc --version 2>&1| head -n 1 | grep -v gcc | awk \
+gcc -dumpversion 2>&1| awk \
 'NR==1{print "Gnu C                 ", $1}'
 
-gcc --version 2>&1| grep gcc | awk \
-'NR==1{print "Gnu C                 ", $3}'
-
 make --version 2>&1 | awk -F, '{print $1}' | awk \
       '/GNU Make/{print "Gnu make              ",$NF}'