Re: Finding Module Versions - How Would You Do It?

With older versions of Perl, I used to do:

$ perl -e 'use Test::More; print $Test::More::VERSION, "\n"'
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With newer versions of Perl, I now use the slightly shorter:

$ perl -E 'use Test::More; say $Test::More::VERSION'
0.98
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And to automate, using a selection of modules from your list, you could do something like:

$ module_list='Test::More English File::Find Test::Perl::Critic'
$ for i in $module_list; do
> echo $i
> eval "echo \`perl -E 'use $i; say \$$i::VERSION'\`"
> done
Test::More
0.98
English
1.04
File::Find
1.19
Test::Perl::Critic
1.02
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-- Ken

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Re^2: Finding Module Versions - How Would You Do It? by hippo (Archbishop) on Feb 13, 2013 at 14:37 UTC
I have this bash function in my .bashrc: `pmv () { perl -M$1 -e "print \$$1::VERSION . qq/\n/;"; }` which is based along similar lines and works for me. It is invoked like this: `pmv Test::More` Simple, but effective.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Finding Module Versions - How Would You Do It? by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Feb 14, 2013 at 15:35 UTC
Have you two even read the post at all? This is exactly what Tommy doesn’t want to do for reasons explained there.	[reply]