I've created an RFE for this and added Paul's comments to it:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12366
Joe
Paul M Davies (Oracle) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure that --terse will give you exactly what you want. The
> --terse option eliminates messages that asadmin outputs about the
> progress of the subcommand. It doesn't affect the information that the
> subcomand retrieves:
>
> asadmin version
> Version = Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 (build 22)
> Command version executed successfully.
>
> asadmin --terse version
> Version = Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 (build 22)
>
> Regards,
> --Paul
>
>
> On 06/24/10 08:20, Joe Di Pol wrote:
>> Tom Mueller wrote:
>>> We already have the --terse option on that command. Can we use that
>>> instead of "--short"?
>>
>> That's an option to asadmin, right? So that would be:
>>
>> asadmin --terse version --local
>>
>> Which looks a bit funny, but I could go with that. I'll file
>> an RFE.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 6/23/2010 5:36 PM, Joe Di Pol wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Given a GlassFish installation that may not be running,
>>>> what is the best way to get the version -- say from a
>>>> shell script. Is it:
>>>>
>>>> asadmin version
>>>>
>>>> or is there some file or data in the GlassFish install
>>>> that one could look at? If "asadmin version" is the
>>>> way then I think I'll file an RFE to support:
>>>>
>>>> $ asadmin version --local --short
>>>> 3.1-b06
>>>>
>>>> Which means get me the short version string for
>>>> the local install and don't go to the DAS.
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
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