From c8983aff97a024d55a69b8f1c9af271effa633ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MarcusGrass <marcus.grass@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:48:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add `--version` argument to print main binary version
 Issue #8071

---
 src/bin/coreutils.rs | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bin/coreutils.rs b/src/bin/coreutils.rs
index 2821988c2..50a97d6d0 100644
--- a/src/bin/coreutils.rs
+++ b/src/bin/coreutils.rs
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ fn main() {
                 }
                 process::exit(0);
             }
+            "--version" => {
+                println!("{binary_as_util} {VERSION} (multi-call binary)");
+                process::exit(0);
+            }
             // Not a special command: fallthrough to calling a util
             _ => {}
         }