From 5af08abde50b5a8552966c599fb692e46e74a707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bastian Kleineidam <bastian.kleineidam@web.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 12:56:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a new command 'patool version' to show version
 information

---
 doc/changelog.txt | 1 +
 doc/patool.1      | 4 ++++
 doc/patool.txt    | 5 +++++
 patoolib/cli.py   | 7 +++++++
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/changelog.txt b/doc/changelog.txt
index 00a63e25..7c2bd3ac 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.txt
+++ b/doc/changelog.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 * Removed the recompress command.
 * Use the new filter option when extracting TAR archives with the tarfile
   module in Python >= 3.12 to detect unsafe archive entries.
+* Added new command "patool version" to print version information.
 
 
 1.15.0 (released 28.10.2023)
diff --git a/doc/patool.1 b/doc/patool.1
index 0e105a02..0b328221 100644
--- a/doc/patool.1
+++ b/doc/patool.1
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ determined by the file extension of \fIarchive_new\fP.
 .PP
 Show all supported archive formats (i.e. which helper applications
 are available).
+.SS version
+\fBpatool\fP \version\fP
+.PP
+Print version information.
 .SH HELP OPTION
 Specifying the help option displays help for patool itself, or a
 command.
diff --git a/doc/patool.txt b/doc/patool.txt
index cc2ca39a..96d874e8 100644
--- a/doc/patool.txt
+++ b/doc/patool.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ COMMANDS
        Show all supported archive formats (i.e. which helper  applica‐
        tions are available).
 
+   version
+       patool sion
+
+       Print version information.
+
 HELP OPTION
        Specifying  the help option displays help for patool itself, or
        a command.
diff --git a/patoolib/cli.py b/patoolib/cli.py
index 55dd542c..a373fdbc 100644
--- a/patoolib/cli.py
+++ b/patoolib/cli.py
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ def run_formats (args):
     return 0
 
 
+def run_version(args):
+    print(App)
+    return 0
+
+
 class ArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
     """Custom argument parser."""
 
@@ -191,6 +196,8 @@ def create_argparser():
     parser_search.add_argument('archive', help='the archive file')
     # formats
     subparsers.add_parser('formats', help="show supported archive formats")
+    # version
+    subparsers.add_parser('version', help="print version information")
     # optional bash completion
     try:
         import argcomplete