bin-version

Get the version of a binary in semver format

Install

npm install bin-version

Usage

$ curl --version
curl 7.30.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)

import binaryVersion from 'bin-version';

console.log(await binaryVersion('curl'));
//=> '7.30.0'

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015

import binaryVersion from 'bin-version';

console.log(await binaryVersion('openssl'));
//=> '1.0.2'

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015

import binaryVersion from 'bin-version';

console.log(await binaryVersion('openssl', {args: ['version']}));
//=> '1.0.2'

API

binaryVersion(binary, options?)

Returns a Promise<string> with the version of the binary.

binary

Type: string

The name of or path to the binary to get the version from.

options

Type: object

args

Type: string[]

The arguments to pass to binary so that it will print its version.

If not specified, predefined arguments will be used for known binaries, or ['--version'] and ['version'] arguments will be tried.

Related

• bin-version-cli - CLI for this module
• find-versions - Find semver versions in a string