> i had this cute bash script to display a nicely formatted version in
> konsole and it
> just stopped working
> 
> after the shebang it reads
> 
> vim --cmd ':version | :q'
> 
> before today it worked beautifully -- today it hangs and won't release control
> until i kill the vim process

Works fine for me.  Try: vim --clean --cmd ':version | :q'

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