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Perl one liners

Check if a module is installed:

perl -M<module name>-e 1


Check the version of the installed modules:

perl -M<module name> -e 'print "$<module name>::VERSION \n"'

Install a perl module using CPAN:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install <module name>'


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References:
http://www.perlhowto.com/perl_modules
http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_modules