Which Version of Blender Created a Blend File?

[Duthomhas (Michael Thomas Greer)]

For those Google sends here:

Shell script to identify .blend file version

“How do I know what version of Blender created the .blend file?” It seems that this question has been asked a lot, and the general answer is to open the .blend in Notepad and look at the file header. But… that’s clunky and it doesn’t work for compressed .blends I often work from the terminal prompt anyway — and the information about the file version is something I tend to want to know before I’ve even launched Blender itself. So… This is a python script to do it from the console / termina…