bin-version

What is bin-version?

The bin-version npm package is designed to retrieve the version of a binary executable in your system. It is useful for developers who need to programmatically check and manage the versions of dependencies and tools that their applications interact with.

What are bin-version's main functionalities?

Get binary version

This feature allows you to fetch the version of a specified binary executable. The code sample demonstrates how to retrieve the version of 'curl' using the bin-version package.

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

(async () => {
  try {
    const version = await binVersion('curl');
    console.log(version);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error:', error);
  }
})();

Other packages similar to bin-version

command-exists

This package checks if a given command exists in the system path. Unlike bin-version, which retrieves the version of the binary, command-exists simply checks for the existence of the binary without providing version information.

find-versions

find-versions is a package that extracts semver versions from a string. It can be used in conjunction with other tools to parse version numbers from command output, offering a more flexible approach compared to bin-version which directly fetches the version from the binary.

README

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