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embossversion |
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.
% embossversion Writes the current EMBOSS version number 1.13.0
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 |
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(none) | |||
Optional qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
-outfile | Output file | Output file | stdout |
Advanced qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
(none) |
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
Program name | Description |
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embossdata | Finds or fetches the data files read in by the EMBOSS programs |