Sometime we need to find out what is our Tomcat version installed in our server. We can check Tomcat version with following command sh version.sh, this version.sh is located at tomcat bin folder

mkyong@mkyong-desktop:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin$ sh version.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5.5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
Server version: Apache Tomcat/5.5
Server built:   Jan 3 2008 11:42:45
Server number:  5.5.25.0
OS Name:        Linux
OS Version:     2.6.24-19-generic
Architecture:   i386
JVM Version:    1.6.0_06-b02
JVM Vendor:     Sun Microsystems Inc.
mkyong@mkyong-desktop:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin$

Got it, Tomcat version is 5.5.25.0.

P.S Tomcat version.sh required we set up JAVA_HOME properly, please issue following command if hanvt set up JAVA_HOME environment.

export JAVA_HOME=<java jdk path>
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