pmvers(1p)

pmvers1p

Print out a module's version

Overview

Given one or more module names, show the version number if present. If more than one argument is given, the name of the module will also be printed. Not all modules define version numbers, however.

Examples

    $ pmvers CGI
    2.46
    $ pmvers IO::Socket Text::Parsewords
    IO::Socket: 1.25
    Text::ParseWords: 3.1
    $ oldperl -S pmvers CGI
    2.42
    $ filsperl -S pmvers CGI
    2.46
    $ pmvers Devel::Loaded
    pmvers: unknown version for module `Devel::Loaded'

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0–3.1
  3. 4.0–5.0
  4. 6.0–7
  5. 8–9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12–13

License

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".

From pmtools 2.2.0-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.