diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index 5a16bad72595..ab69ecefedbd 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ gcc --version 2>&1| grep gcc | awk \
 make --version 2>&1 | awk -F, '{print $1}' | awk \
       '/GNU Make/{print "Gnu make              ",$NF}'
 
-ld -v | awk -F\) '{print $1}' | awk \
-'/BFD/{print "binutils              ",$NF} \
-/^GNU/{print "binutils              ",$4}'
+echo "binutils               $(ld -v | egrep -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9\.]+')"
 
 echo -n "util-linux             "
 fdformat --version | awk '{print $NF}' | sed -e s/^util-linux-// -e s/\)$//