How to get chrome version using command prompt in windows

Question

Is it possible to get version installed chrome version using command prompt in windows?

Tried,

 "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -version  "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --version  "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -product-version  "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --product-version 

When i do that, a browser instance is opening. What flag should I be using to get the version.

I am using Windows 7. Google Chrome version is 67.0.3396.87.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As of today user4851's is still working. I took a look at his linked bug report and the proposed work around did not work for me anymore.

Anways a new hkey is present in my directory which allows you to query the chrome version without being aware of the actual installation location:

reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon" /v version 

Answer 2

There's a bug filed about this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158372

Original Answer (but see the update below)

What works for me is

wmic datafile where name="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" get Version /value 

It prints

Version=67.0.3396.99 

surrounded by some blank lines.

There are some other suggestions in the bug comments, like querying the registry.

Update

Someone from the Chromium team posted this "totally unsupported" batch file in the bug comment thread:

@ECHO OFF  :: Look for machine-wide Chrome installs (stable, Beta, and Dev). :: Get the name, running version (if an update is pending relaunch), and :: installed version of each. FOR %%A IN (     {8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96},     {8237E44A-0054-442C-B6B6-EA0509993955},     {401C381F-E0DE-4B85-8BD8-3F3F14FBDA57}) DO (   reg query HKLM\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v name /reg:32 2> NUL   reg query HKLM\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v opv /reg:32 2> NUL   reg query HKLM\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v pv /reg:32 2> NUL )  :: Look for Chrome installs in the current user's %LOCALAPPDATA% directory :: (stable, Beta, Dev, and canary). :: Get the name, running version (if an update is pending relaunch), and :: installed version of each. FOR %%A IN (     {8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96},     {8237E44A-0054-442C-B6B6-EA0509993955},     {401C381F-E0DE-4B85-8BD8-3F3F14FBDA57},     {4ea16ac7-fd5a-47c3-875b-dbf4a2008c20}) DO (   reg query HKCU\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v name /reg:32 2> NUL   reg query HKCU\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v opv /reg:32 2> NUL   reg query HKCU\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v pv /reg:32 2> NUL ) 

That should probably be seen as the right way to go for the time being.