How to view a PE EXE/DLL file version information?
I'm working in a tool called pev to retrieve information about PE files on the command line.
It is installable with
sudo apt-get install pev
The file version can be fetched with
peres -v program.exe | awk '{print $3}'
From the gnome-exe-thumbnailer
script, suggested by Scott Ritchie:
wrestool --extract --raw --type=version inputfile.exe
extracts the version information, printing some binary data mixed with UTF-16 text. The script converts it to readable text by piping it through:
tr '\0, ' '\t.\0' \
| sed 's/\t\t/_/g' \
| tr -c -d '[:print:]' \
| sed -r -n 's/.*Version[^0-9]*([0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9][0-9]?)?).*/\1/p'
The overall command is then wrestool --extract --raw --type=version inputfile.exe | tr '\0, ' '\t.\0' | sed 's/\t\t/_/g' | tr -c -d '[:print:]' | sed -r -n 's/.*Version[^0-9]*([0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9][0-9]?)?).*/\1/p'
.
As an alternative to using tr and sed to parse the output from @mechanical-snail 's solution, here is a GNU strings and GNU grep version:
$ wrestool --extract --raw --type=version putty.exe | strings -el | grep Version -A 1
FileVersion
Release 0.65
ProductVersion
Release 0.65
UPDATE:
Another alternative is a recent version of exiftool by Phil Harvey (it is based on perl, easy to install with sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
, also available for Mac and Windows). It has lots of formatting options.
# Example with exiftool 10.47
$ exiftool -FileVersion -ProductVersion putty.exe
File Version : Release 0.67
Product Version : Release 0.67