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Dear Monks,

I have the following code.

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;
my $script_dirname = dirname(__FILE__);
print "dirname: $script_dirname\n";
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When I run the script I get the following output:

C:\Data\scripting\misc>path_test.pl
dirname: C:\Data\scripting\misc
C:\Data\scripting\misc>
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This is what I expect. I get the full path of the directory. All is good.

However when I run the script with the interpreter I get the following:

C:\Data\scripting\misc>perl path_test.pl
dirname: .
C:\Data\scripting\misc>
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I just get the "." for the current directory.

Why is this the case? How can I always get easily the full path of the directoy where my script is running - no matter how the user calls the script?

(It must work on Windows and would be nice if this also runs on Unix).

Thanks for your help.

regards deMichi

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