Check The Version of Pygments Installed on The System

How to find out what version of Pygments Syntax Highlighter you got installed.

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By. Jacob

Edited: 2020-05-03 12:49

I recently updated Ubuntu to the latest 20.04 release on Beamtic, and at some point I was unsure about which version of Pygments, the Syntax Highlighter, that I had installed on the system.

Since Pygments/Pygmentize had no manual page, I quickly turned to Google to find out how to check the version number, without any luck. Then I realized I could just list the installed pip packages to see the version:

pip3 list | grep 'Pygments'

Output:

Pygments               2.6.1

This outputs the version of the specific package. Thanks to grep :-)

Just leaving this here in case others need it.

In the above example, I am "piping" the output of the pip3 list command to the grep command.