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

3.0.0

Command line arguments 

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers: (none)
   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -full               boolean    Show all EMBOSS version information fields
   -outfile            outfile    Output file name

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

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory          string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto                boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout              boolean    Write standard output
   -filter              boolean    Read standard input, write 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. 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 deaths

Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers Allowed values Default
(none)
Additional (Optional) qualifiers Allowed values Default
-full Show all EMBOSS version information fields Boolean value Yes/No No
-outfile Output file name Output file stdout
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers Allowed values Default
(none)

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

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 data files read by EMBOSS programs

Author(s)

Gary Williams (gwilliam © rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk)
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, 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.

Comments

None