bash-2.05a$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: ..... ..... ..... Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Jan 11 2002 04:09:18 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . ^^^ - note this dot