How to check Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) version on my terminal?

Question

[appropiate]

Hopefully the title is self-explanatory. I have tried

bwa --version

without success.

Answer 1

[Dave Carlson]

Just run the bwa command without the --version flag:

$ bwa

Program: bwa (alignment via Burrows-Wheeler transformation) Version: 0.7.17-r1188 Contact: Heng Li [e-mail]

Usage: bwa <command> [options]

[appropiate]

That was embarrassingly simple, thanks!