I would like to create a program that would find all the modules installed on a server and list the names and the versions of these modules. Any tips as to how to get the version from a module automatically would be helpful and appreciated. Also, if anyone knows of a program that does this already, please let me know! Thanks! Unix Sys Admin
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Listing installed Perl Modules and Versions
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Actually, I found a much more complicated, but much more thorough, way to do this. I go through "@INC" and search for files ending in .pm or .pl that have the "package" line in them, and then try to run $package_name::VERSION. If that doesn't work, I search for a "\$.*VERSION \=" line in the file and try to find a valid version number string in the line. If anyone wants my code for this, let me know. I'll probably post it on my web-page soon. Thanks for the pointers! Unix Sys Admin
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