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bin-version

Get the version of a binary in semver format

Install

$ npm install bin-version

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

const binVersion = require('bin-version');

(async () => {
	console.log(await binVersion('curl'));
	//=> '7.30.0'
})();

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015

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

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

Type: string

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

Type: object

Type: string[] Default: ['--version']

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