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 --save bin-version

Usage

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

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

binVersion('curl').then(version => {
	console.log(version);
	//=> '7.30.0'
});

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015

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

CLI

See the find-versions CLI.

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus