diff --git a/sprout/version.hpp b/sprout/version.hpp
index 7ed7a6a3..e47e8fbc 100644
--- a/sprout/version.hpp
+++ b/sprout/version.hpp
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 // SPROUT_VERSION_YYYYMMDD
 //	(yyyyMMdd)
 //
-#define SPROUT_VERSION_YYYYMMDD \
-20170806
+#define SPROUT_VERSION_YYYYMMDD 20170806
 
 #endif	// #ifndef SPROUT_VERSION_HPP
diff --git a/tools/testspr/test.sh b/tools/testspr/test.sh
index 53d78f83..b9720ccf 100755
--- a/tools/testspr/test.sh
+++ b/tools/testspr/test.sh
@@ -173,10 +173,12 @@ fi
 
 if [ ${use_version} -ne 0 ]; then
 	script_dir=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd)
-	version_path="${script_dir}/../../sprout/version.hpp"
-	sprout_version_yyyymmdd=`head -n 18 ${version_path} | tail -n 1`
-	sprout_copyright=`head -n 3 ${version_path} | tail -n 2`
-	echo "Sprout version (YYYYMMDD) = ${sprout_version_yyyymmdd}"
+	version_hpp_path="${script_dir}/../../sprout/version.hpp"
+	sprout_version_yyyymmdd=`sed -n "s/[ \t]*#[ \t]*define[ \t]\+SPROUT_VERSION_YYYYMMDD[ \t]\+//p" ${version_hpp_path}`
+	sprout_copyright=`sed -n "/\/\*=/,/=\*\//s/^[ \t]\+/  /p" ${version_hpp_path}`
+	echo "version:"
+	echo "  Sprout version (YYYYMMDD) = ${sprout_version_yyyymmdd}"
+	echo "copyright:"
 	echo "${sprout_copyright}"
 	exit 0
 fi