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semver-cli is a simple command line tool to compare and manipulate version strings.

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semver-cli ==========

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semver-cli is a simple command line tool to compare and manipulate version strings.

It is basically a cli wrapper around the excellent Masterminds semver library, with lots of help from the also excellent Kingpin

usage: semver [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

Command-line semver tools. On error, print to stderr and exit -1.

Flags: --help Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man). -v, --verbose Verbose mode.

Commands: help [<command>...] Show help.

satisfies <VERSION> <CONSTRAINTS> Test if a version satisfies a constraint. Exit 0 if satisfies, 1 if not. If verbose, print an explanation to stdout.

greater <A> <B> Compare two versions. Exit 0 if the first is greater, 1 if not. If verbose, print greater to stdout.

lesser <A> <B> Compare two versions. Exit 0 if the first is lesser, 1 if not. If verbose, print lesser to stdout.

equal <A> <B> Compare two versions. Exit 0 if they are equal, 1 if not.

inc <COMPONENT> <VERSION> Increment major, minor, or patch component.

get <COMPONENT> <VERSION> Get major, minor, patch, prerelease or metadata component.

set <COMPONENT> <VERSION> <VALUE> Set prerelease or metadata component.

Example


Deploy only when the CI tag is within constraints and is greater than what is currently released. For example, with constraints 1.* and a released version of 1.4, a version of 1.5 would be released but a version of 2.0 or 1.2 would not.

#!/bin/bash

CONSTRAINTS=$(jq .labels.constraints manifest.json) RELEASED=$(jq .image manifest.json | cut -d: -f 2)

semver satisfies "$CI_TAG" "$CONSTRAINTS" || exit 1 semver greater "$CI_TAG" "$RELEASED" || exit 1

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