github.com/containers/podman/v2@v2.2.2-0.20210501105131-c1e07d070c4c/docs/source/markdown/podman-version.1.md (about) 1 % podman-version(1) 2 3 ## NAME 4 podman\-version - Display the Podman version information 5 6 ## SYNOPSIS 7 **podman version** [*options*] 8 9 ## DESCRIPTION 10 Shows the following information: Remote API Version, Version, Go Version, Git Commit, Build Time, 11 OS, and Architecture. 12 13 ## OPTIONS 14 15 #### **--help**, **-h** 16 17 Print usage statement 18 19 #### **--format**, **-f**=*format* 20 21 Change output format to "json" or a Go template. 22 23 ## Example 24 25 A sample output of the `version` command: 26 ``` 27 $ podman version 28 Version: 2.0.0 29 API Version: 1 30 Go Version: go1.14.2 31 Git Commit: 4520664f63c3a7f9a80227715359e20069d95542 32 Built: Tue May 19 10:48:59 2020 33 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 34 ``` 35 36 Filtering out only the version: 37 ``` 38 $ podman version --format '{{.Client.Version}}' 39 2.0.0 40 ``` 41 42 ## SEE ALSO 43 podman(1) 44 45 ## HISTORY 46 November 2018, Added --format flag by Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com> 47 July 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani <umohnani@redhat.com>