How to read current app version in Xcode 11 with script

Xcode 11/12

In terminal or bash script in your project you can use:

App version

xcodebuild -showBuildSettings | grep MARKETING_VERSION | tr -d 'MARKETING_VERSION =' // will be displayed 1.1.6

Build version

xcodebuild -showBuildSettings | grep CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION | tr -d 'CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION =' // will be displayed 7

Or (don't forget to change YouProjectName to your project name):

App version

cat YouProjectName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj | grep -m1 'MARKETING_VERSION' | cut -d'=' -f2 | tr -d ';' | tr -d ' '

Build version

cat YouProjectName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj | grep -m1 'CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION' | cut -d'=' -f2 | tr -d ';' | tr -d ' '

Or slower method (Thx Joshua Kaden):

App version

xcodebuild -project YouProjectName.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings | grep "MARKETING_VERSION" | sed 's/[ ]*MARKETING_VERSION = //'

Build version

xcodebuild -project YouProjectName.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings | grep "CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION" | sed 's/[ ]*CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION = //'

You can use it like any other project variable:

sourceFilePath="$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/App/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard"versionNumber="$MARKETING_VERSION"buildNumber="$CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION"sed -i .bak -e "/userLabel=\"APP_VERSION_LABEL\"/s/text=\"[^\"]*\"/text=\"v$versionNumber\"/" "$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/App/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard"

Couldn't find right answer on the internet, so I started digging.

Version and build numbers are displayed in ./PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj as MARKETING VERSION (MV) and CURRENT PROJECT VERSION (CPV).

I used sed to get the numbers. It finds first occurrence of MV or CPV, removes everything except the number, and returns result. In order for this to work, you need to do 2 things:

• navigate to projects root folder
• change PROJECTNAME to your project's name

Commands:

version_number=`sed -n '/MARKETING_VERSION/{s/MARKETING_VERSION = //;s/;//;s/^[[:space:]]*//;p;q;}' ./PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj`build_number=`sed -n '/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION/{s/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION = //;s/;//;s/^[[:space:]]*//;p;q;}' ./PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj`

Result:

Note: If you have more targets in your workspace with different version and build numbers, this might or might not work for you, because it stops on first occurrence. In that case, good luck :)