How to display the installed dotnet new template version numbers
There are two ways to get template version.
First, you can use the documented command
dotnet new -u
Second, you can use the following command:
dotnet new --debug:showconfig
which will show you all installed templates with their version number.
[update - note that this post is now over 2 years old, and the tooling appears to have gotten much better] The best I seem to come up with is to look in
C:\Users\BozoJoe\.templateengine\dotnetcli\v2.1.104\packages
which has the nupkgs with the version numbers in the file names (as well as the nupkg zips)