So what I've come up with is the following, though it seems way too verbose:

vim --not-a-term --cmd 'redir! >/tmp/vimver.txt|echon v:versionlong|quit'
verlong=`cat /tmp/vimver.text`


On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 7:53:07 AM UTC+2 Ron Aaron wrote:

> I want to get the vim version for a bash script. The way I'm trying to use 
> is:
>
> vim --not-a-term --cmd 'echo v:versionlong|quit'
>
> However, that spews a bunch of ANSI terminal control stuff as well, which 
> I don't want. Is there an option to suppress that output?
>

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