what do you think about using exec? This way you know the actual version by invoking Node.js itself.

✡ fnm exec --using=default node -v
v20.16.0

Either of these meet my needs, but I still think it should be baked into a fnm command. Similar tools, like pyenv or rbenv offer this functionality directly.

So fnm default is what you expect it to be? sgtm. Wanna contribute that?

If default is just an alias, a more generic command would be to print the target version for an alias.

Something like fnm alias <alias> ?

@Schniz OK

@MunifTanjim fnm has a dedicated default function that doesn't require knowing default is just an alias. So I think the command to retrieve the default version should not require invoking the alias command. But if you look at my PR, it would be pretty simple to use it to implement your proposal for fnm alias too, if you desired that.

@Schniz you asked me to write a patch, I did so, and it's been sitting for a month.