cleos version client
returns a foreign language to me.
Build version: 59626f1e
Is there a way I can ascertain what version I'm on from that? Is there another way of doing it besides that?
The cleos version client
does returned the version. However, it is the build version.
To translate into human readable version, you can check https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/tags and search for the build version.
Then you can find the version as v1.4.4
.
The 59626f1e
you got is the first 8 digit hash of the last git commit used to build cleos. Which can be considered as id of that commit. The code can be found at https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/tree/59626f1e .