embossversion

 

Function

Writes the current EMBOSS version number

Description

This small utility writes out the current version of the EMBOSS package.

It is expected that this may have a use in scripts which automatically write descriptions of the state of the EMBOSS package that is set up locally.

It will also be a useful way for people to ascertain what version is being run if they are giving user-support to people in another site.

Usage

Here is a sample session with embossversion:

% embossversion
Writes the current EMBOSS version number
1.13.0

Command line arguments

   Mandatory qualifiers: (none)
   Optional qualifiers:
   -outfile            outfile    Output file

   Advanced qualifiers: (none)
   General qualifiers:
  -help                boolean    Report command line options. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose


Mandatory qualifiers Allowed values Default
(none)
Optional qualifiers Allowed values Default
-outfile Output file Output file stdout
Advanced qualifiers Allowed values Default
(none)

Input file format

None.

Output file format

This 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 writetn 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.

An example of the version number is:
1.13.0

Data files

None.

Notes

None.

References

None.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program nameDescription
embossdataFinds or fetches the data files read in by the EMBOSS programs

Author(s)

This application was written by Gary Williams (gwilliam@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)

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.

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