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

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.