Assembly CLR Version

I've been searching for a way to quickly find the CLR version of a .NET assembly from the command line. Found references about ILDADM, DUMPBIN, assembly reflection methods, and so on. But still, those tools dump a lot of information and could directly find what I need, at least from a command line. Here's what I found. Using some gnuutil[^] commands (I love these tools on Windows environment), I extracted exactly the CLR version like this: Command line

ildasm /header /text [ASSEMBLY_PATH] | grep -A 7 "Metadata Header" | tail -n 1

Result

//              'v2.0.50727' Version String

The ildasm command will dump a lot of information and the header will dump even further information. Grep will search the Metadata Header text and will display the following 7 lines. Tail will only retrieve the last line from the previous 7 lines. Hope this will help you on catching old assemblies.