RE: Find perl module version from command-line

This is how I do it for checking one module.. I use CPAN to check multiple:

perl -MMODULE -e 'print $MODULE::VERSION';
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Of course, if the module author doesn't put the suggested $VERSION variable in, this won't work :)

Cheers,
KM

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RE: RE: Find perl module version from command-line by lachoy (Parson) on Oct 18, 2000 at 22:24 UTC
Right! This is what I meant by `perl -e` in my writeup. but I thought it was getting kind of tedious to type this in every time... TMTOWDI.	[reply]
Re^2: Find perl module version from command-line by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 21, 2012 at 16:32 UTC
A nice shortcut is `perl -e 'use Some::Module 9e9'` [download] It is worth noting that `perl -MSome::Module=9e9 -e1` works only if that module is Exporter-based, because -M passes that number as an import argument instead of a version number, but then Exporter interprets it as a version number.	[reply] [d/l] [select]