Answer: How do I get the full path to the script executing? contributed by l2kashe or even Cwd use stict; use Cwd qw(abs_path); my $path = abs_path($0); [download]

Answer: How do I get the full path to the script executing? contributed by clemburg If you want only the directory part, use File::Basename, like this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Spec::Functions qw(rel2abs); use File::Basename; print dirname(rel2abs($0)); [download] Using a regex here is calling for trouble. Christian Lemburg Brainbench MVP for Perl http://www.brainbench.com reply

Answer: How do I get the full path to the script executing? contributed by Dominus Use the standard FindBin module: use FindBin '$Bin'; print "The script is located in $Bin.\n"; [download]

Answer: How do I get the full path to the script executing? contributed by clash I think that that is overworked. When I used $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'} it gave me the full path (not URL) to the script being executed. But maybe thats just me...

Answer: How do I get the full path to the script executing? contributed by tye Since the existence of replies is not shown when looking at the list of answers, I added this "answer" just to visibly note that using the "FindBin" module may not be the best choice. See FindBin is broken (RE: How do I get the full path to the script executing?) for more information.

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