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  4. <p>DITA Open Toolkit</p>
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  6. </div></header><nav role="toc"><ul><li><a href="../index.html">DITA Open Toolkit 3.3</a></li><li><a href="../release-notes/index.html">Release Notes</a></li><li><a href="../topics/installing-client.html">Installing DITA-OT</a><ul><li><a href="../topics/prerequisite-software.html">Prerequisite software</a></li><li class="active"><a href="../topics/determining-version-of-ditaot.html">Checking the version</a></li><li><a href="../topics/first-build-using-dita-command.html">Building output</a></li><li><a href="../topics/installing-via-homebrew.html">Installing via Homebrew</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../topics/alternative-input-formats.html">Authoring formats</a></li><li><a href="../topics/building-output.html">Building output</a></li><li><a href="../parameters/index.html">Setting parameters</a></li><li><a href="../topics/customizing.html">Customizing DITA-OT</a></li><li><a href="../topics/troubleshooting-overview.html">Troubleshooting</a></li><li><a href="../reference/index.html">Reference</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita-and-dita-ot-resources.html">Resources</a></li></ul></nav><main role="main"><article role="article" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title1">
  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Checking the DITA-OT version number</h1>
  8. <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">You can determine the DITA Open Toolkit version number from a command prompt.</p>
  9. <section><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Procedure</h2></div><ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand">
  10. <span class="ph cmd">Open a command prompt or terminal session, and then change to the directory where DITA
  11. Open Toolkit is installed.</span>
  12. </li><li class="li step stepexpand">
  13. <span class="ph cmd">Issue the following command:</span>
  14. <table border="1" frame="hsides" rules="rows" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" class="simpletable choicetable choicetableborder"><colgroup><col style="width:25%"><col style="width:75%"></colgroup><thead><tr class="sthead chhead"><th scope="col" class="stentry choptionhd" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:left;">Option</th><th scope="col" class="stentry chdeschd" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:left;">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="strow chrow">
  15. <th style="vertical-align:top;" scope="row" class="stentry choption">Linux or macOS&nbsp;</th>
  16. <td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry chdesc">
  17. <span class="keyword cmdname">bin/dita</span>
  18. <span class="keyword parmname">--version</span>
  19. </td>
  20. </tr><tr class="strow chrow">
  21. <th style="vertical-align:top;" scope="row" class="stentry choption">Windows</th>
  22. <td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry chdesc">
  23. <span class="keyword cmdname">bin\dita</span>
  24. <span class="keyword parmname">--version</span>
  25. </td>
  26. </tr></tbody></table>
  27. <div class="itemgroup info">
  28. <div class="note tip note_tip"><span class="note__title">Tip:</span> Add the absolute path for <span class="ph filepath"><var class="keyword varname">dita-ot-dir</var></span><span class="ph filepath">/bin</span> to the <var class="keyword varname">PATH</var> environment variable to run the
  29. <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command from any location on the file system without typing the path.
  30. </div>
  31. </div>
  32. </li></ol></section>
  33. <section class="section result"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Results</h2></div>
  34. <p class="p">The DITA-OT version number appears on the console:</p>
  35. <pre class="pre codeblock"><code><samp class="ph systemoutput sysout">DITA-OT version <span class="keyword">3.3.3</span></samp></code></pre>
  36. </section>
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