On 1/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Atom Powers</b> <<a href="mailto:atom.powers@gmail.com">atom.powers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I want to do this: `/usr/bin/perl -V:version | /usr/bin/cut -d "'" -f<br>2` without using pipes or quotes; is that possible? (for some reason<br>my application isn't executing this correctly)<br><br>That is; I am looking for a simple way to get just the version number
<br>wihout any padding. Something like "5.8.7" or "5.0.6" or whatever.</blockquote><div><br> </div>maybe this will help:<div><br> perl -MConfig -e"print $Config{version}" <br><br>~jerry<br></div>
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