$ perl -MFile::Spec -le " print File::Spec->rel2abs( shift ) " tmp\tmpblah\done.pl D:\tmp\tmpblah\done.pl $ perl -MPath::Class -le " print file( shift )->resolve " tmp\tmpblah\done.pl tmp\tmpblah\done.pl $ perl -MPath::Class -le " print file( shift )->resolve->absolute " tmp\tmpblah\done.pl D:\tmp\tmpblah\done.pl