$ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi [...snip...] #### $ perl -MSafe -e 'print $Safe::VERSION, "\n"' 2.14 #### $ perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper(\@INC);' $VAR1 = [ '/etc/perl', '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8', '/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8', '/usr/lib/perl5', '/usr/share/perl5', '/usr/lib/perl/5.8', '/usr/share/perl/5.8', '/usr/local/lib/site_perl', '.' ]; #### $ perl test.pl 3.0.17