echo - How to print name and version of a tool in cmd in one line? -

i want print version of e.g. packer in cmd. works packer --version. unfortunately prints version number - not name of tool. case other tools (e.g. virtualbox, etc.), too.

c:\_temp λ packer --version 0.10.1 λ vboxmanage --version 5.1.4r110228

so idea somethink echo packer & packer --version prints in 2 lines:

c:\_temp λ echo packer & packer --version packer 0.10.1

now, how can print name + version number in 1 line? result looks like:

packer 0.10.1 virtualbox 5.1.4r110228

assign result of version environment variable

for /f %a in ('packer --version') set version=%a 

then echo

echo packer %version% 

explanation:

• you're looping on output of packer --version (there's 1 line though version gets set one)
• if need 1 token line can specify eg "tokens=2" second space delimited token.

note: these commands work command line. use in batch file turn %a %%a.