I got this from a co worker of mine (Prakash) and figured I'd share this useful tool with you all... You call it with a name the module in question and it gives its location and the version.

Call it like so... 

  pmpath Data::Dumper
You get returned... 
  /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/Data/Dumper.pm (2.102)
I use it quite a bit for comparing module versions on different servers or find the location of the package to check out the source

Here's the code for an executable called pmpath located in my '~/bin' dir. 

  #!/usr/bin/perl 
  $module = shift;
  ($mod = $module) =~ s#::#/#g;
  die ("Need a module name\n") unless $mod;
  $mod .= '.pm';
  require $mod;
  print $INC{$mod}." (".${$module."::VERSION"}.")\n";
Have Fun, Jeff 
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