|   | embossversion | 
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embossversion writes the version number of the EMBOSS package to to screen (by default) or (optionally) to file.
| % embossversion Report the current EMBOSS version number 6.6.0.0 | 
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Report the current EMBOSS version number
Version: EMBOSS:6.6.0.0
   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers: (none)
   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -full               boolean    Show all EMBOSS version information fields
   -outfile            outfile    [stdout] EMBOSS version output file
   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:
   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory         string     Output directory
   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to 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 and exit. 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 dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit
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| Qualifier | Type | Description | Allowed values | Default | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers | ||||
| (none) | ||||
| Additional (Optional) qualifiers | ||||
| -full | boolean | Show all EMBOSS version information fields | Boolean value Yes/No | No | 
| -outfile | outfile | EMBOSS version output file | Output file | stdout | 
| Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers | ||||
| (none) | ||||
| Associated qualifiers | ||||
| "-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers | ||||
| -odirectory | string | Output directory | Any string | |
| General qualifiers | ||||
| -auto | boolean | Turn off prompts | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
| -stdout | boolean | Write first file to standard output | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
| -filter | boolean | Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
| -options | boolean | Prompt for standard and additional values | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
| -debug | boolean | Write debug output to program.dbg | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
| -verbose | boolean | Report some/full command line options | Boolean value Yes/No | Y | 
| -help | boolean | Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
| -warning | boolean | Report warnings | Boolean value Yes/No | Y | 
| -error | boolean | Report errors | Boolean value Yes/No | Y | 
| -fatal | boolean | Report fatal errors | Boolean value Yes/No | Y | 
| -die | boolean | Report dying program messages | Boolean value Yes/No | Y | 
| -version | boolean | Report version number and exit | Boolean value Yes/No | N | 
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.
embossversion might be called by scripts in automated systems requiring versioning information, or in user-support as a convenient way to ascertain the version of an EMBOSS installation being used remotely.
| Program name | Description | 
|---|---|
| embossdata | Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files | 
| embossupdate | Check for more recent updates to EMBOSS | 
Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.