~/.bashrc Perl Module Version Tip

mikegrb — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:41:12 +0000

I often need to quickly check the version of a perl module currently installed. A while back I got tired of running:

$ perl -MPOE::Filter -E 'say $POE::Filter::VERSION'
1.2357

So I added a quick function to .bashrc:

pm-vers () {
perl -M$1 -e "print \$$1::VERSION, \"\n\""
}

Now I just run:

$ pm-vers POE::Filter
1.2357

hmmm.... » bash