g.version - Displays GRASS GIS version info.

Authors

       Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
       Extended info by Martin Landa, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Citing Grass Gis

       The GRASS Development Team has invested significant time and effort in creating GRASS GIS, please cite it
       when using it for data analysis.  The GRASS GIS Web site offers citations in different styles.

Description

g.version  prints  to  standard output the GRASS version number, date, the GRASS GIS copyright (-c flag),
       and GRASS build information (-b flag).

Examples

Basicinfo
       g.version
       GRASS 8.4.0 (2024)

   GISLibraryinfo
       g.version -r
       GRASS 8.4.0 (2024)
       libgis revision: c9e8576cf
       libgis date: 2024-04-27T09:38:49+00:00

   Fullinfoinshellscriptstyle
       g.version -rge
       version=8.4.0
       date=2024
       revision=d57f40906
       build_date=2024-05-23
       build_platform=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
       build_off_t_size=8
       libgis_revision=c9e8576cf
       libgis_date=2024-04-27T09:38:49+00:00
       proj=8.2.1
       gdal=3.4.3
       geos=3.9.2
       sqlite=3.36.0
       Note:  if  revision=exported  is  reported instead of the git hash then the git program was not available
       during compilation of GRASS GIS and the source code did not contain the .git/ subdirectory (requires e.g.
       to git clone the GRASS GIS software repository.)

Keywords

       general, support, citing, copyright, version, license

Name

g.version  - Displays GRASS GIS version info.
       Optionally also prints build or copyright information.

Notes

       This program requires no command line arguments; the user simply types g.version on the command  line  to
       see the version number and date of the GRASS GIS software currently being run by the user.

       Information about GRASS GIS core GIS Library can be printed by -r flag.

       Version numbers of additional libraries like PROJ, GDAL/OGR or GEOS are printed by -e flag.

       See also function version() from Python Scripting Library.
       import grass.script as gcore
       print gcore.version()

Source Code

       Available at: g.version source code (history)

       Accessed: Friday Apr 04 01:18:56 2025

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GRASS 8.4.1                                                                                    g.version(1grass)

Synopsis

g.versiong.version--helpg.version [-cxbreg]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:-c
           Print also the copyright message

       -x
           Print also the citation options

       -b
           Print also the build information

       -r
           Print also the GIS library revision number and date

       -e
           Print also extended info for additional libraries
           GDAL/OGR, PROJ, GEOS

       -g
           Print info in shell script style (including Git reference commit)

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog