DESCRIPTION

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

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.4, 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()

EXAMPLES

Basic info

g.version 

GRASS 7.0.0RC2 (2015)

GIS Library info

g.version -r

GRASS 7.0.0RC2 (2015)
libgis Revision: 64007 
libgis Date: 2015-01-08 20:08:36 +0100 (Thu, 08 Jan 2015)

Full info in shell script style

g.version -rge

version=7.0.0RC2
date=2015
revision=64517M
build_date=2015-01-12
build_platform=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
libgis_revision=64007 
libgis_date="2015-01-08 20:08:36 +0100 (Thu, 08 Jan 2015) "
proj4=4.8.0
gdal=1.11.1
geos=3.4.2
sqlite=3.8.8

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.

AUTHORS

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

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