[Classiccity-pm] Checking version of an installed module?

[Jim Gifford]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:55:23PM -0400, Darrell Golliher wrote:
> 
>  From time to time I get curious about what version of a module, like
>  DBI, is installed on a system.  Does anybody know of a way to find it
>  without visiting the module itself and viewng it's source?
> 
> tia,
> 
> -Darrell

Assuming well-behaved (ie, following the normal guidelines) modules, this
should work:

perl -MMyModule -e 'print $MyModule::VERSION,"\n"'

hope this helps,
jim