[Remind-Fans] command line option for remind version number

[David F. Skoll]

Rob Hamrick wrote:

> Just wondering if I'm missing something obvious?  Is there a command  
> line option that outputs remind's version number, something like -- 
> version?  I'm trying to write a test for this in a script.

It's not obvious.  This works in bash; not sure about standard
Bourne shell:

VER=`remind - <<'EOF'
banner %
MSG [version()]%
EOF`

echo "Version of Remind is: $VER"

Regards,

David.