How to get the AssemblyVersion of a .Net file in Linux

Try to match version numbers that span a whole line:

$ strings file.exe | egrep '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'

In my (few) tests, the AssemblyVersion of the binary was always the last result.

.net linux mono assemblyinfo

As recommended by Jb Evain you can use the Mono Disassembler.

monodis --assembly file.exe | grep Version

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The ikdasm tool that is also distributed with Mono is more robust than monodis, which unfortunately crashes with the message "Segmentation fault: 11" on many DLL files. The maintainers explicitly recommend the use of ikdasm rather than monodis: https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/8900#issuecomment-428392112

Usage example (with an assembly that monodis currently cannot handle):

ikdasm -assembly System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll | grep Version:

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