Command Line Interface

The command name varies with each of the three OS types available, but all three have a -v option to show the VMware Tools version number.

Linux:   vmware-toolbox-cmd stat raw <encoding> <stat>
Mac:     vmware-tools-cli stat raw <encoding> <stat>
Windows: VMwareToolboxCmd.exe stat raw <encoding> <stat>

These commands are provided for debugging and scripting; the implementation is a wrapper on top of the VMGuestLib_StatGet() call described above.