I can obviously manually check perl.org
If you can do it manually, you can tell perl to do it. TIMTOWTDI als always:
- Perl Download:
perl -MLWP::Simple -le 'get("https://www.perl.org/get.html") =~ /lates
+t stable version, currently ([\d\.]+)\./ and print $1'
5.24.1
- Perl Source:
perl -MLWP::Simple -le 'get("http://www.cpan.org/src") =~ /([\d\.]+)\s
++<td>Maint/ and print $1'
5.24.1
at the time of writing this node.
Index of /src/5.0 on The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network is outdated at the moment, since it tells latest_maint_is_5.14.1. The links haven't been adjusted for a long time...
perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'