Re: [PLUG] finding joomla version at the command line

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:38:55 -0400
> From: Michael Lazin<microlaser@gmail.com>
>
> I like to check what version of a cms a user is using sometimes.  With
> wordpress it's easy, you can do "find -name version.php | xargs grep
> wp_version" and it will spit out the version name and the path.  I'm trying
> to do the same with Joomla, I've tried some variations on this with both
> grep and egrep with no success.  The same name file tells the Joomla
> version, version.php, but the release information is in two different
> fields, like so:
>
>          var $RELEASE    = '1.5';
>          /** @var string Development Status */
>          var $DEV_STATUS = 'Stable';
>          /** @var int Sub Release Level */
>          var $DEV_LEVEL  = '26';
>          /** @var int build Number */
>          var $BUILD      = '';
>
> Can any one think of a clever variation of my first command that will show
> both $RELEASE $DEV_LEVEL using a similar variation of egrep or grep?  For
> some reason I just can't get it right now.

Here is a shell function I wrote (cheating and using Perl) to do that 
circa 2008; based on above I *think* it'll still work:

#+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Return (print) the current running version of Joomla
# Called like:  get_current_ver </path/to/ Joomla version.php>
# e.g., get_current_ver "$web_root_dir/joomla/libraries/joomla/version.php"
function get_current_ver {
    # Old, cheesy
    # perl -ne 'print qq($1\n) if m/([0-9.]+) Stable Release/;' 
/var/www/joomla/CHANGELOG.php | head -n1
    # More work, but more likely to be correct
    perl -e 'while (<>) {
                  $release = $1 if m/var \$RELEASE\s+= .([\d.]+).;/;
                  $dev     = $1 if m/var \$DEV_LEVEL\s+= .(\d+).;/;
              }
              print qq($release.$dev\n);' $1
} # end of get_current_ver

Used like:
web_root_dir='/var/www'             # Actual Joomla dir in here
joomla_package_dir='/root/Joomla'   # Joomla packages and patches
joomla_version_file="$web_root_dir/joomla/libraries/joomla/version.php"
current_ver=$(get_current_ver $joomla_version_file) # What are we 
running now


HTH,
JP
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