in reply to Get file version information in Perl

This is experimental. I took davido's suggestion and expanded it a little. I tested it against gnuplot and perl. It won't work on all executables, so you'll need to play with it. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use SVN::Notify;

my $exe = SVN::Notify->find_exe('gnuplot');
system("$exe -V");

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Re^2: Get file version information in Perl
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2011 at 07:02 UTC

    Using -v, -V or --version doesn't work at all for .dll files, and I didn't find any .exe for which that worked.

    Even for programs that do recognise one of these, the option causes far more than the version to be returned.

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      It doesn't even work for perl, not that all versions of perl include such information 
      $ sigcheck -a -h -e -i -q C:\perl\5.12.2\bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\
+perl.exe
c:\perl\5.12.2\bin\mswin32-x86-multi-thread\perl.exe:
        Verified:       Unsigned
        File date:      5:11 AM 10/16/2010
        Publisher:      n/a
        Description:    n/a
        Product:        n/a
        Version:        n/a
        File version:   n/a
        Strong Name:    Unsigned
        Original Name:  n/a
        Internal Name:  n/a
        Copyright:      n/a
        Comments:       n/a
        MD5:    8d75c8a4ca154a3c5a55d0db5f45ad83
        SHA1:   fda7cb1ffa77e1497a6e6b372cec065240aabfb7
        SHA256: 062b62f5981aee65d63d16c140f558f6aa8d06d192b7449b21b3e0
+7eb5196a0b

$ perl -V |grep 2010
  Compiled at Oct 16 2010 05:10:19

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Re^2: Get file version information in Perl
by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2011 at 06:56 UTC
    s/experimental/wishful/
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