version prints out the version of Solaris that a command first appeared in, $ version perl perl Solaris 8 2000 It's a handy program for those of us who work on multiple versions of Solaris, as a reminder of which versions can do what. $ version coreadm dumpadm adb mdb coreadm Solaris 8 2000 dumpadm Solaris 7 1998 adb Solaris <2.5 <1994 mdb Solaris 8 2000 ... or when we encounter new commands, $ version pkgadm pkgadm Solaris 9 12/03 2003