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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 2.7.0 |
Mandatory qualifiers: (none) Optional qualifiers: -outfile outfile Output file Advanced qualifiers: (none) Associated qualifiers: "-outfile" related 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 required and optional values -debug boolean Write debug output to program.dbg -acdlog boolean Write ACD processing log to program.acdlog -acdpretty boolean Rewrite ACD file as program.acdpretty -acdtable boolean Write HTML table of options -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 |
Mandatory qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
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Optional qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
-outfile | Output file | Output file | stdout |
Advanced qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
(none) |
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.
Program name | Description |
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embossdata | Finds or fetches the data files read in by the EMBOSS programs |