Find perl module version from command-line

How many times have you wondered what version of a module you had installed, just to check it using perl -e. Why bother? Just put this little snippet in '/usr/local/bin' or some other accessible place. (Win32 users can wrap it in a batch file.)

perlmodver Template DBI File::Spec
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Results in:

Template            : 2.00-beta5
DBI                 : 1.13
File::Spec          : 0.6
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
foreach my $module ( @ARGV ) {
  eval "require $module";
  printf( "%-20s: %s\n", $module, $module->VERSION ) unless ( $@ );
}
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