Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:07:46 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> How do I determine what version of the DBD module is installed?
>
> There are several DBD::xyz modules. DBI has a method for finding them:
>
> perl -MDBI -e "print join qq(\n), DBI->available_drivers"
>
> You can usually find the version of a module with something like:
>
> perl -MDBD::xyz -e "print $DBD::xyz::VERSION" # UNIX
> perl -MDBD::xyz -e 'print $DBD::xyz::VERSION' # MSWin
>
I keep these in my ~/.bashrc (and something similar in my .tcshrc) for just
this purpose:
# User specific aliases and functions
pv () { perl -M$1 -le "print q{$1}->VERSION";}
m () { perl -MCPAN -e "print CPAN::Shell->format_result(q{Module}, q{$1})";}
so you can do
$> pv CGI
3.00
$> m CGI
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/webdragon/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:51:31 GMT
Module id = CGI
CPAN_USERID LDS (Lincoln D. Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
CPAN_VERSION 3.00
CPAN_FILE L/LD/LDS/CGI.pm-3.00.tar.gz
MANPAGE CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
INST_FILE /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CGI.pm
INST_VERSION 3.00
$>
Hope people find these useful. :)
