Windows: Command line to read version info of an executable file?

Question

Does Windows have an executable that I can run in the command shell which returns the version number of an executable (.exe) file?

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Answer 1

If you are willing and able to use PowerShell, the following code will work. If you are on a supported Windows system, PowerShell will be available.

(Get-Item -Path 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_144\bin\java.exe').VersionInfo |
    Format-List -Force

If you must run it in a cmd.exe shell, you could use:

powershell -NoLogo -NoProfile -Command ^
    "(Get-Item -Path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_201\bin\java.exe').VersionInfo |" ^
        "Format-List -Force"