Re: Find perl module version from command-line

I was going to post the following to the Snippets section when I came across your nicer version:

    perl -le 'eval "require $ARGV[0]" and print ${"$ARGV[0]::VERSION"}
+' Module
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Your method of printing the version number is cleaner as well:

    perl -le 'eval "require $ARGV[0]" and print $ARGV[0]->VERSION' Mod
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I'm glad that I searched before posting. ;-)

John.
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Re^2: Find perl module version from command-line by cld (Initiate) on Jan 03, 2008 at 23:27 UTC
When I run the perl script provided by Fastolfe I get some extra output in the results: `dal1:/home/user1 % perlmodver.pl CPAN Module Installed CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.13) Going to read /home/user1/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:38:06 GMT CPAN 1.9205 1.9205 dal1:/home/user1 %` [download] Is there a simple way to discard this additional text?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Find perl module version from command-line by naChoZ (Curate) on Jan 04, 2008 at 22:56 UTC
The extra output is being generated by the CPAN module itself. I checked out the code on mine and I don't see any conditionals or anything that could be passed to supress that output. So, the simple answer is to grep for what you want or use `perlmodver.pl CPAN \| tail +5` because I don't think there's much you can do from the perl side that doesn't require putting more effort into it than it's worth. -- naChoZ Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Find perl module version from command-line by Anonymous Monk on Feb 21, 2012 at 13:26 UTC
I know this is kind of an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone has any code that will recursively go through a directory structure and find ALL the PERL modules and then print out the version. My Red Hat Linux distro has /usr/local/lib/perl5 and then the sub-dirs 5.8.5 and site_perl. How would I sweep through these two sub-dirs, find all the .pm files, for example, and then have it give me the VERSION if a VERSION variable exist in the .pm file? The reason I ask is I have 4 machines which I must compare VERSIONs on. So if I can get the output into 4 individual files I can easily import the data into a spreadsheet and compare. I have a small bash script that seems to work, but I'm looking for an efficient PERL method. I am just learning PERL i.e. I'm a few pages into the 5th ED. of the O'Reilly book, so the coding required is still a bit over my head, yet I have this task to complete for the boss man. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.	[reply]
Re^5: Find perl module version from command-line by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 21, 2012 at 13:34 UTC
Re^6: Find perl module version from command-line by educated_foo (Vicar) on Feb 21, 2012 at 17:08 UTC
Re^6: Find perl module version from command-line by geelsu (Initiate) on Feb 21, 2012 at 14:42 UTC
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Re^5: Find perl module version from command-line by geelsu (Initiate) on Feb 21, 2012 at 13:34 UTC