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Show file version command line

Windows 2000 or Windows XP:

In the explorer GUI if I right click on a file I have a "VERSION" tab if the file has this attribute. How do I read this from the command line?

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nummagumma2

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Neat. Thanks!

I found a cmdline util that does it myself, this might be useful for you:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Sigcheck.html

Using that tool I created a file that does this:

for /f "tokens=3" %%v in ('sigcheck "\\%comp%\c$\path\file.exe"^|find /i "version"') do set fVer=%%v
echo %fVer%

then I process what I need to with the fVer info.

sirbounty

Good info to have - I figured there would be a 3rd party out there, but I didn't run across any.
Thanx for the grade.

There's also, if you're interested a method to take the above scripted output and create an environment variable with the result, but I'd personally prefer the command line solution that you found.

nummagumma2

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I'm still (blissfully) ignorant of vbs so try to do as much as I can with .bat.... Old Dog, etc, etc.

SteveGTR

Here's a command line version:

@echo off

for /F "delims=" %%a in ('cscript //nologo CheckVer.vbs myfile.exe') do set VerNo=%%a

echo VerNo: %VerNo%

I really love these scripts. I'm a novice at them myself. I'm learning from SirBounty here -- thanks :)