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bin-version
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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.
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);
}
})();
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 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.
Get the version of a binary in semver format
$ npm install --save bin-version
$ curl --version
curl 7.30.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)
var binVersion = require('bin-version');
binVersion('curl', function (err, version) {
console.log(version);
//=> 7.30.0
});
See the find-versions CLI.
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Get the version of a binary in semver format
The npm package bin-version receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, bin-version popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that bin-version demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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