bug: cannot find out version of STAR by executing STAR from command line

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Dan

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Sep 11, 2014, 8:17:45 AM9/11/14
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Hello,


it looks like it is not possible to find out from command line options of STAR (version STAR_2.4.0a) to find out its version.

I have tried:

STAR
STAR --version
STAR -version
STAR -v

and all give this kind of error:

==================================================================================
EXITING: FATAL INPUT ERROR: empty value for paramter "-v" in input "Command-Line-Initial"
SOLUTION: use non-empty value for this parameter

Sep 11 15:09:44 ...... FATAL ERROR, exiting

==================================================================================

It would be great if it would be possible to find out quickly the version of STAR by running one of this:

STAR
STAR --version
STAR -version
STAR -v
STAR --help
STAR -h

because it would behave more like a standard *nix tool.


Cheers,
Dan

P.S. there is also a very small typo in the error message where "paramter" should be "paramEter".

Dan

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Sep 11, 2014, 8:19:59 AM9/11/14
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If I remember right and my memory does not play tricks "STAR --version" was working fine for STAR 2.3*

Daniel

Alexander Dobin

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Sep 11, 2014, 5:57:08 PM9/11/14
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Hi Dan,

please try 2.4.0b/c, I think this problem has been fixed:

Cheers
Alex
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