mysqladmin -u <ユーザー名> -p version

mysqladmin -u root -p version
Enter password:
mysqladmin  Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.1.27, for debian-linux-gnu on i486
Copyright 2000-2007 MySQL AB, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

Server version        5.1.27-1ubuntu5.1
Protocol version    10
Connection        Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket        /var/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:            3 days 18 hours 38 min 43 sec

Threads: 1  Questions: 69446  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 252  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 64  Queries per second avg: 0.212