Cmder: How to check version?

[avindra]

Is there a simple way to check the version of the tool? I've tried cmder --help, cmder -?, cmder /help, etc. None seem to work. Furthermore, is there a CLI way to use cmder itself?

[kermage]

@ %CMDER_ROOT% directory there is this file named Version v#.#

[avindra]

I see. Here's the problem: I switch versions by dropping files right over the directory. So, currently, I see:

$ ls -l Version* | awk '{print $9, $10}'
Version v1.1.4.1
Version v1.2

In linux it's easier to manage different versions with symlinks, but in Windows it isn't as straightforward.

I think it would be more sensible to bake the version number into the launcher and add a command line switch to check the version with --version -v or -V. This is what most utilities do...

[Jackbennett]

You're right, the file is a cheap way of doing it. At least we can know the highest ver file wins.

I thought maybe some clever powershell way to get the checked out branch/tag and build and store that value to return but finding that, wow. Maybe we can make sure posh-git is on the build server then we can just use (get-gitStatus).branch, stick that and maybe some other info in a cmder.json and all the tools can reference this to describe themselves.

[Tset-Noitamotua]

Some news on that?

I would like to be able to do cmder --version

[Stanzilla]

Since cmder is not an application on its own, but a compilation of tools, this is not possible. We could create an alias like that that prints the name of the Versionfile in your cmder dir but eh, can just look at that file instead.

[Jackbennett]

Best you could do is type $cmderRoot\version.txt I'll make some alias
like version in the profile. It's not that useful to know though as cmder
made up if so many components. Might make it command more likenpm outdated.

On 2 Aug 2016 12:29 p.m., "Benjamin Staneck" [email protected]
wrote:

Closed #587 https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/587.

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[geekrumper]

I gave this a little thought and found the following to be the most useful one:

file: _%CMDER_ROOT%/config/user-aliases.cmd_

version=ls %CMDER_ROOT% | grep Version*

Just type version and you get Version v1.3.5 back...