I found the jar trick stable from versions 4.5 onwards, so I'm posting what I'm using:  APPD_PATH=$(ls -d /opt/appdynamics 2>/dev/null || ls -d /appl/appdynamics/saas 2>/dev/null || ls -d /appl/appdynamics 2>/dev/null) if [ -z "$APPD_PATH" ];then echo "AppDynamics is not installed on this server" else echo "DEBUG: ls -d $APPD_PATH/*" ls -d $APPD_PATH/* |grep agent | while read adir do agent=$(basename $(basename "$adir" "agent") "-" ) echo "DEBUG: agent=$agent" unzip -p $adir/${agent}*agent.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF \ |sed -e 's/Implementation-Version: //;t;d' find $adir/ -type f -name java -executable |while read javabin do echo -e "# $javabin" $javabin -version 2>&1 done done fi ... View more