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Re: Answer: How do I find what dir the perl script is running from?

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on Dec 29, 2000 at 19:29 UTC ( [id://48886]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in thread How do I find what directory the perl script is running from?

Even better (for Unix), you can try one of the following... 

$var = `/usr/bin/pwd`; # put the current dir in to $var


print `/usr/bin/pwd`;  # print the cwd to STDOUT
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Re: Re: Answer: How do I find what dir the perl script is running from?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 16, 2003 at 19:38 UTC
    this way you'll get dir the script is running _on_, and not the path script is running _from_
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