I think the documentation leaves a lot to be desired... I'm trying to tell someone what version of Cygwin I am using.
There's a FAQ item at https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version. It gives this useless advice: To find the version of the Cygwin DLL installed, you can use uname as on Linux or cygcheck. Refer to each command's --help output and the Cygwin User's Guide for more information. OK, let's try it: $ cygcheck -v Usage: cygcheck [-v] [-h] PROGRAM cygcheck -c [-d] [PACKAGE] cygcheck -s [-r] [-v] [-h] cygcheck -k ... OK, -v is what we need: $ cygcheck -v cygwin cygcheck: could not find 'cygwin' OK, another failure. RTFM does not work. Why the hell don't you just state how to check the god damn version? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
