What are some nice command line ways to inspect DLL/EXE details?
With most Windows executables (DLL, EXE...), version and other details can be viewed using "Details" tab in "Properties" (Alt+Enter).
I wonder: is there also a command-line way to do this? I'm particularly interested for Product version, but also other things could be useful.
Following properties are desired, in order of precedence:
- accept exe/dll path as a parameter
- output to standard output (so you can process the rest via
|pipe) - available by default in all supported Windows (XP+)
- available by default in Windows Vista+
- available by default in Windows XP
- usable in commercial environment
- free license (GPL-like)
- portable (ie. standalone exe, maybe accompanied with DLL)
Solution 1:
In powershell, get-command "full-path-to-executable" | format-list would do the trick. Powershell is the new command-line
for Vista and later Windows, can be installed in XP.
Solution 2:
Use the Microsoft's DUMPBIN utility.
It has lots of useful options, however, it depends on what do you want to do.
However, it's not free, but I believe can be obtained freely with Windows SDK.