Version and Help

Version and Help

Print the current version of Gam with details

gam version
GAM 7.29.03 - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM - pyinstaller
GAM Team <google-apps-manager@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.14.1 64-bit final
macOS Tahoe 26.1 x86_64
Path: /Users/Admin/bin/gam7
Config File: /Users/admin/GAMConfig/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, customer_id: my_customer, domain: domain.com
Time: 2023-06-02T21:10:00-07:00

Print the current version of Gam with details and time offset information

gam version timeoffset
GAM 7.29.03 - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM - pyinstaller
GAM Team <google-apps-manager@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.14.1 64-bit final
macOS Tahoe 26.1 x86_64
Path: /Users/Admin/bin/gam7
Config File: /Users/admin/GAMConfig/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, customer_id: my_customer, domain: domain.com
Your system time differs from www.googleapis.com by less than 1 second

Print the current version of Gam with extended details and SSL information

gam version extended
GAM 7.29.03 - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM - pyinstaller
GAM Team <google-apps-manager@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.14.1 64-bit final
macOS Tahoe 26.1 x86_64
Path: /Users/Admin/bin/gam7
Config File: /Users/admin/GAMConfig/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, customer_id: my_customer, domain: domain.com
Time: 2023-06-02T21:10:00-07:00
Your system time differs from admin.googleapis.com by less than 1 second
OpenSSL 3.5.3 16 Sep 2025
arrow 1.3.0
chardet 5.2.0
cryptography 46.0.1
filelock 3.19.1
google-api-python-client 2.182.0
google-auth-httplib2 0.2.0
google-auth-oauthlib 1.2.2
google-auth 2.40.3
lxml 6.0.1
httplib2 0.31.0
passlib 1.7.4
pathvalidate 3.3.1
pyscard 2.3.0
yubikey-manager 5.8.0
admin.googleapis.com connects using TLSv1.3 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

Print the current and latest versions of Gam and:

• set the return code to 0 if the current version is the latest version
• set the return code to 1 if the current version is not the latest

gam version checkrc
GAM 5.35.08 - https://github.com/taers232cGAM7
GAM Team <google-apps-manager@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.8.1 64-bit final
google-api-python-client 2.77.0
httplib2 0.16.0
oauth2client 4.1.3
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 x86_64
Path: /Users/Admin/bin/gam7
Version Check:
  Current: 5.35.08
   Latest: 7.29.03
echo $?
1

Print the current version number without details

gam version simple
7.29.03

In Linux/MacOS you can do:

VER=`gam version simple`
echo $VER

Print the current version of Gam and address of this Wiki

gam help
GAM 7.29.03 - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
GAM Team <google-apps-manager@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.14.1 64-bit final
macOS Tahoe 26.1 x86_64
Path: /Users/Admin/bin/gam7
Config File: /Users/admin/GAMConfig/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, customer_id: my_customer, domain: domain.com
Time: 2023-06-02T21:10:00-07:00
Help: Syntax in file /Users/Admin/bin/gam7/GamCommands.txt
Help: Documentation is at https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki