SPUG: 4 Quick Questions (symlinks, anon. arrays, shell commands...)

Richard A Puckett II puckett at nwlink.com
Fri Sep 17 15:43:36 CDT 1999


Ryan Erwin wrote:

> How can I resolve where these links are pointing to?

  readlink ($linked_file);

> Is there a way to find the current working directory from perl
> without using pwd in backticks?  ( my $dir = `pwd` )
>

  perldoc Cwd

> Is there a way to find out what a file is dynamically linked
> with besides using ldd in backticks?  ( my $_ = `ldd $file` )

  Not that I know of....  :(

- Richard.



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