note syphilis Nice idea - and I've just stuck it in my bashrc on my linux box, where it's working fine.<br><br>However, in the form in which you've posted it, it won't work with Parse::RecDescent, Inline::C and (probably) some of the other Inline::* modules. So instead, I've written the perl command as: <c> perl -le "require $m;print $m->VERSION" </c> and that seems to work fine for *all* modules (the ones I tested, at least).<br><br>Cheers,<br>Rob 771461 771461