🏷️ cpe version

Print the version, git commit, build date, and Go runtime information for the cpe CLI.

Usage

cpe version

Arguments

This command takes no arguments.

Flags

This command defines no flags of its own. The global flags (--output, -o, --no-color) are accepted but have no effect on this command — it always prints a fixed multi-line text block.

Output

The command prints the following fields, one per line:

Field	Description
cpe CLI	The CLI version (default 0.1.0, set at build time)
Git Commit	The git commit the binary was built from (unknown unless injected at build time)
Build Date	The build date (unknown unless injected at build time)
Go Version	The Go runtime version reported by runtime.Version()
OS/Arch	The operating system and architecture (runtime.GOOS/runtime.GOARCH)

Example

cpe version

Expected output:

cpe CLI:     0.1.0
Git Commit:  unknown
Build Date:  unknown
Go Version:  go1.25.0
OS/Arch:     linux/amd64

How It Works

The diagram below shows that cpe version simply reads build-time variables and Go runtime values, then prints them — no library calls, no I/O.

The build-time variables (cliVersion, cliGitCommit, cliBuildDate) can be overridden at build time via -ldflags:

go build -ldflags "-X main.cliVersion=1.0.0 -X main.cliGitCommit=$(git rev-parse HEAD) -X main.cliBuildDate=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" \
  -o cpe ./cmd/cpe

Related Documentation

• CLI Overview — installation and the full subcommand list