How to check your PHP version using bash

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So, you can check your php version using PHP with the following code:

	<?php phpinfo(); ?>

So how to do the same using bash. In bash you can use

	php -r PHP_CODE_GOES_HERE

to run php code. You can run the phpinfo(); code after you escape all special characters:

	php -r phpinfo\(\)\;

The returned information is just too much to handle. We’ll now grep only the PHP version.

	php -r \phpinfo\(\)\; | grep 'PHP Version'

If you get PHP warnings you might want to silent them using @:

	php -r \@phpinfo\(\)\; | grep 'PHP Version'

Now the last thing to do is to limit our grep to just one line:

	php -r \@phpinfo\(\)\; | grep 'PHP Version' -m 1

and the result is: