Comments on: How to check VMware tools version using CLI on Linux http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-check-vmware-tools-version-on-linux-using-cli/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cdarn http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-check-vmware-tools-version-on-linux-using-cli/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 cdarn Fri, 29 May 2009 04:16:38 +0000 http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=859#comment-1423 FYI, option 2 doesn't seem to be as clean as your example indicates at least for the two ESX versions I am running. It also sends to stderr so a command like the following seems to be in order. [root@nile tmp]# vmware-config-tools.pl -h 2>&1 | head -1 VMware Tools 3.5.0 build-153875 for Linux configurator [root@osiris tmp]# vmware-config-tools.pl -h 2>&1 | head -1 VMware Tools 3.0.1 build-47426 for Linux configurator FYI, option 2 doesn’t seem to be as clean as your example indicates at least for the two ESX versions I am running. It also sends to stderr so a command like the following seems to be in order.

[root@nile tmp]# vmware-config-tools.pl -h 2>&1 | head -1
VMware Tools 3.5.0 build-153875 for Linux configurator

[root@osiris tmp]# vmware-config-tools.pl -h 2>&1 | head -1
VMware Tools 3.0.1 build-47426 for Linux configurator

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