[mplspm]: Any reason to keep old versions around?
Craig S. Wilson
craig at wavefront.net
Fri Feb 27 16:52:09 CST 2004
I needed to update one of my systems to the latest Perl in an attempt to
get RT 3.0 running. I wanted to be sure that I kept a copy of the current
Perl just in case, though, so I looked in my /usr/local/bin to see if I had
a copy.
1-%ls -lrt /usr/local/bin/perl*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 craig other 425984 Jul 16 1993 /usr/local/bin/perl4.036
-rwxr-xr-x 1 craig staff 417792 Jun 27 1994 /usr/local/bin/perl4.003
-rwxr-xr-x 1 craig other 581632 Jan 2 1995 /usr/local/bin/perl5.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 craig other 545848 Oct 20 1997 /usr/local/bin/perl5.002
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 25 Jan 31 1998
/usr/local/bin/perl5.003 -> /opt/LWperl/bin/perl5.003
-rwxr-xr-x 1 craig other 704112 Jan 10 1999
/usr/local/bin/perl5.00502
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 730316 May 26 1999
/usr/local/bin/perl5.00503
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 897600 Apr 13 2000 /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0
-rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 927780 Apr 26 2001 /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1
-rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 927780 Apr 26 2001 /usr/local/bin/perl
It is interesting to track the size change over time. Plus it is kind of
neat to have over 11 years of Perl's on a computer.
It is probably more like 12-13 years, but I must have reset the timestamp
on the 4.003 version at one time.
7-%./perl4.003 -v
This is perl, version 4.0
$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.1 $$Date: 91/04/11 17:49:05 $
Patch level: 3
Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall
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Craig S. Wilson craig at wavefront.net
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