pmvers - print out a module's version
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.
$ 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'
pmdesc(1),
pmpath(1),
pmcat(1).
Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.
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".