skarpdev/dotnet-version-cli

It would be nice if there was a format which just outputted the version and nothing else

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justinmchase commented

I would like to basically to be able to use the version in other places in my build, but the current output formats require a extra work to get it. It would be nice if there was a output format that could print out the version and nothing else. Is there a recommended way for doing this now?

export VERSION="$(dotnet version -f example.csproj)"
echo "$VERSION" # 1.0.0
justinmchase commented

Here's a workaround in bash:

dotnet version -f example.csproj --output-format json | tr { '\n' | tr , '\n' | tr } '\n' | grep "currentVersion" | awk  -F'"' '{print $4}'
nover commented

There's the --output-format=json option but that requires jq parsing.

Adding a raw or bare output format is definitely also possible

justinmchase commented

Yeah exactly, it would be nice just because parsing the output with jq may not be cross platform consistent.

nover commented

@justinmchase sorry forgot all about this issue, thanks for pinging me. I totally agree, forcing people to have json parsing tools installed is not great.

Check out this MR: #72 - should address your issue :)

justinmchase commented

Based on that change the solution will now be:

export VERSION="$(dotnet version -f example.csproj -o bare)"
echo "$VERSION" # 1.0.0
nover commented

@justinmchase yes, but without the -- those are needed to stop dotnet run from parsing any further command line arguments. So
export VERSION="$(dotnet version -f example.csproj -o bare)" echo "$VERSION" # 1.0.0

I'll get it merged and released

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