Version number in CLI

[samarulmeu]

The fewer issues I have to read, the more new features I will have time to implement, so I ask that you please try these things first

• Check out all the menus and keyboard shortcuts. Maybe the feature already exists?
• Try with the newest version from GitHub
• Read the documentation and FAQ, Known issues, Troubleshooting to see if the feature already exists
• See if someone already suggested this under Issues or Discussions

Description

Will will be possible to get only the version number from CLI. Something like

LosslessCut-linux-x86_64.AppImage --version

I am doing an automated check for upgrading to latest version and I need to see what version I have installed.

Thank you!

[mifi]

Hi. I think you should be able to grab it from package.json file inside the AppImage if you extract it first, see https://superuser.com/questions/1301583/how-can-i-extract-files-from-an-appimage

so i'm not sure this needs a dedicated cli arg

[samarulmeu]

But then I will have to extract the json file every time my script checks the installed and the available version which is time consuming and also means a lot of disk writing.

--version will just show the version number and then exits.

[mifi]

probably not going to prioritise this very soon but I can leave it open to see if it becomes a popular request