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Comment by mike-cardwell | Hacker News Reader

  mike@server:~$ perl -MLWP::UserAgent -e 'print $LWP::UserAgent::VERSION."\n"'
  5.835
  mike@server:~$

Even shorter, as -l appends \n to all prints:

    $ perl -MLWP::UserAgent -le 'print $LWP::UserAgent::VERSION'

Even shorter!

    $ M=LWP::UserAgent && perl -M$M -le "print \$$M::VERSION"

Even even shorter!

    $ M=LWP::UserAgent;perl -M$M -Esay\$$M::VERSION

This reminds me of that joke in which jokes have been reduced to numbers. It's nearly as obscure, too.

Did Gödel come up with that joke?

That works, too!