From: "Ian Lambert via cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: How to find out the current cygwin version?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1887FC94-CBF3-46D2-A11D-B036DD3741AD@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR2001MB10744EF61D075A11B74EE258F1950@BN6PR2001MB1074.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
On September 8, 2017 9:05:31 AM EDT, "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@conduent.com> wrote:
>From: David Billinghurst
>> On 8/09/2017 14:39, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote:
>>
>> > Assume I get to another (Windows) computer where Cygwin is already
>> installed.
>> >
>> > How can I find out which version of Cygwin is currently installed?
>> cygcheck --version # for cygwin dll
>> ...
>
>This isn't technically correct, right? This gives the version of
>cygcheck itself, not the cygwin DLL, which is what was really
>being requested.
>
>Instead, use: cygcheck -c cygwin
>
>Or, as I do (and Corinna already suggested): uname -a
>or, more quietly: uname -r
>
Fwiw, from what I've seen, only
cygcheck -c cygwin
gives the full x.y.z-n version.
All other suggestions give only
x.y.z without -n
Small difference, but...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-08 4:40 Ben Stover via cygwin
2017-09-08 4:44 ` David Billinghurst
2017-09-08 8:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-09-08 13:06 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2017-09-08 15:39 ` Ian Lambert via cygwin [this message]
2017-09-08 15:41 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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