SPUG: finding full path to itself

Colin Meyer cmeyer at helvella.org
Tue May 30 16:21:44 PDT 2006


On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:40:05PM -0500, jlb wrote:
> Cwd.pm provides some portable, safe methods to determine your current 
> working directory.

Or see FindBin.pm, if you want to know where the script itself is
located (e.g. to be able to read a config file from the same dir).

-Colin.

> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Satish Gupta wrote:
> 
> > When I a stand-alone script is running, how can this script determine it's own absolute path in a portable manner?
> >
> >  I notice that $0 works differently on different OS's. On some it gives full path and not on others.
> >
> >  Thanks
> >
> >
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