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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Which version of perl is installed on my system? Post 69853 by Just Ice on Wednesday 20th of April 2005 09:03:10 PM
Old 04-20-2005
the OP might be looking for perl options like in "uname -r" to get the OS version ... anyways, here's my 2 cents ...
Code:
perl -v | awk '/This/ {print $4}' | sed -e 's/v//'


Last edited by Just Ice; 04-20-2005 at 10:08 PM.. Reason: remove the "v"
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UNAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  UNAME(1)

NAME
uname -- Print operating system name SYNOPSIS
uname [-amnprsv] DESCRIPTION
The uname utility writes symbols representing one or more system characteristics to the standard output. The following options are available: -a Behave as though all of the options -mnrsv were specified. -m print the machine hardware name. -n print the nodename (the nodename may be a name that the system is known by to a communications network). -p print the machine processor architecture name. -r print the operating system release. -s print the operating system name. -v print the operating system version. If no options are specified, uname prints the operating system name as if the -s option had been specified. SEE ALSO
hostname(1), machine(1), sw_vers(1), uname(3) STANDARDS
The uname utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2''). The -p option is an extension to the standard. BSD
November 9, 1998 BSD
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