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Simply put, how do you determine if AIX 5.3 has PERL installed as non-root?

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Entering the command which perl should point you to the location of the perl binary, if it's installed and in your path. Otherwise, ask the admin. – SvenW Sep 7 '11 at 14:03
also look for perl under /usr/local/bin – jftuga Sep 7 '11 at 14:06
Yep, in the AIX 4 system I stil have access to, that's where it is installed. – SvenW Sep 7 '11 at 14:07
@SvenW Unfortunately this is one of those situations where root holder is a business manager, not an IT admin sigh. – hydroparadise Sep 7 '11 at 14:15

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Try this:

lslpp -l | grep perl
perl -v
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Using lslpp is the Proper AIX Way to do this, assuming Perl was installed in the Proper AIX Way (using an AIX Package). perl -v will work if perl is on your path, regardless of how it got there :) – voretaq7 Sep 7 '11 at 14:18
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You could run this command:

find / -name perl -print

This would return any path where perl resides.

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