Re: Opensuse 12.2 how can i check if i do run one or two versions of Perl?!

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The perl's in your $PATH can be shown like this:

bash:  type -a perl
perl ist /opt/perl/bin/perl
perl ist /usr/bin/perl
perl ist /usr/bin/X11/perl
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Vendor's perl:

bash: /usr/sbin/zypper info perl
...
Information for package perl:

Repository: @System
Name: perl
Version: 5.12.3-11.20.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 40.5 MiB
Summary: The Perl interpreter
Description: 
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
...
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Find all perls that you can access with current privileges:

bash: find / -type f -name perl -ls 2>/dev/null
...
 808533 1372 -rwxr-xr-x   2 perl5    users     1404260 Aug 28  2011 /o
+pt/perl/bin/perl
1094084 1372 -rwxr-xr-x   1 perl5    users     1404260 Aug 27  2011 /h
+ome/perl5/src/perl-5.14.1/perl
   6203 2832 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root      2899960 Jan 31  2012 /u
+sr/bin/perl
...
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