NAME

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

KEYWORDS

       general, support, citing, copyright, version, license

SYNOPSIS

       g.version
       g.version --help
       g.version [-cbreg]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:
       -c
           Print also the copyright message

       -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.4, GEOS

       -g
           Print info in shell script style (including SVN revision number)

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

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

       Last changed: $Date: 2015-02-12 15:27:21 +0100 (Thu, 12 Feb 2015) $

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