Re: Dumb path question

[Doug McNutt]

At 22:24 -0400 3/9/09, Chris Devers wrote, and I snipped.:
This isn't necessarily a Mac-specific question, but I've gotten rusty
and I'm having a brain fart here.

How can a Perl script reliably, portably resolve the path inside which
it is running? Not the PWD of the caller, mind you, but the actual
current full path of the script itself?

$0  That's a zero.  Has always worked for me to produce a full path 
to a running perl script.

$ENV{PWD} is, as you say the working directory when perl, or the 
script as an executable with a shebang line

There is a module "cwd" I think which will keep $ENV{PWD} correct as 
you change directories around within a script..

As for portability to other than *NIX, I donno.

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