Spam Assassin question

[Steve Thomas]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 05:42:55PM +0100, Julian Field is rumored to have said:
> # perl
> use Mail::SpamAssassin;
> print $Mail::SpamAssassin::VERSION . "\n";
>
> Then press Ctrl-D and it will print the version number.
> Same works for any perl module.

You can also do:

perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e 'print "$Mail::SpamAssassin::VERSION\n"'

The -M... is the same as saying "Use this module" and the -e ... runs the quoted command.

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