How to tell which version of a application is running

[Xen]

Chris schreef op 16-04-2017 14:58:

> Thanks for the reply Xen, what I want to be sure of is that 1.12.0 is
> running vice 1.6.2. Both locations are in my path
> 
> echo $PATH
> /home/chris/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin
> :/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

I meant that when you run it from the command line the first path 
element is going to be used that matches, so for you it will be 
/usr/local/bin

But another tool might do something different so if it is started with a 
direct link, your path won't help you.