How can I find out if I have Xcode commandline tools installed?

Question

/usr/bin/xcodebuild -version

will give you the xcode version, run it via Terminal command

First of all, be sure that you have downloaded it or not. Open up your terminal application, and enter $ gcc if you have not installed it you will get an alert. You can verify that you have installed it by

$ xcode-select -p
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

And to be sure then enter $ gcc --version

You can read more about the process here: Xcode command line tools for Mavericks

if you want to know the install version of Xcode as well as Swift language current version:

Use below simple command by using Terminal:

1. To get install Xcode Version

 xcodebuild -version

2. To get install Swift language Version

swift --version

I was able to find my version of Xcode on maxOS Sierra using this command:

pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables | grep version

as per this answer.

Thanks to the folks on Freenode's #macdev, here is some information:

In the old days before Xcode was on the app-store, it included commandline tools.

Now you get it from the store, and with this new mechanism it can't install extra things outside of the Xcode.app, so you have to manually do it yourself, by:

xcode-select --install

On Xcode 4.x you can check to see if they are installed from within the Xcode UI:

On Xcode 5.x it is now here:

My problem of finding gcc/gdb is that they have been superseded by clang/lldb: GDB missing in OS X v10.9 (Mavericks)

Also note that Xcode contains compiler and debugger, so one of the things installing commandline tools will do is symlink or modify $PATH. It also downloads certain things like git.

If for some reason xcode is not installed under

/usr/bin/xcodebuild

execute the following command

which xcodebuild

and if it is installed, you'll be prompted with it's location.