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embossversion

 

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Function

Reports the current EMBOSS version number

Description

embossversion writes the version number of the EMBOSS package to to screen (by default) or (optionally) to file.

Usage

Here is a sample session with embossversion 


% embossversion 
Reports the current EMBOSS version number

6.4.0.0

Command line arguments 

Reports the current EMBOSS version number
Version: EMBOSS:6.4.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers: (none)
   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -full               boolean    Show all EMBOSS version information fields
   -outfile            outfile    [stdout] EMBOSS version output file

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory         string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier Type Description Allowed values Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
(none)
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
-full boolean Show all EMBOSS version information fields Boolean value Yes/No No
-outfile outfile EMBOSS version output file Output file stdout
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
(none)
Associated qualifiers
"-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers
-odirectory string Output directory Any string  
General qualifiers
-auto boolean Turn off prompts Boolean value Yes/No N
-stdout boolean Write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-filter boolean Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-options boolean Prompt for standard and additional values Boolean value Yes/No N
-debug boolean Write debug output to program.dbg Boolean value Yes/No N
-verbose boolean Report some/full command line options Boolean value Yes/No Y
-help boolean Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose Boolean value Yes/No N
-warning boolean Report warnings Boolean value Yes/No Y
-error boolean Report errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-fatal boolean Report fatal errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-die boolean Report dying program messages Boolean value Yes/No Y
-version boolean Report version number and exit Boolean value Yes/No N

Input file format

None.

Output file format

embossversion writes just the version number followed by a newline character to end the line.

The output is written to the screen by default, but can be written to a named file by using the '-outfile' option.

The version number is in three parts, separated by '.'s.
The first number is the major version number - this only changes when substantial changes have been made to the look-and-feel of EMBOSS.
The second number is the minor version number - this is incremented whenever a version is released.
The third number is usually '0' but if a minor bug fix has been released that does not warrant a minor version number, this will be incremented.

Data files

None.

Notes

embossversion might be called by scripts in automated systems requiring versioning information, or in user-support as a convenient way to ascertain the version of an EMBOSS installation being used remotely.

References

None.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program name Description
embossdata Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files

Author(s)

Gary Williams formerly at:
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

History

Written (23 May 2001) - Gary Williams.

Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

None