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in reply to Using File::Find to find drive (Win32)

If you're not married to File::Find...

use Config; print $Config{prefix},$/;

assuming that by 'Perl' you mean the directory where your perl was installed. If you mean the binary, use the perlpath key instead. pod

Updated:
You cannot rely upon ^X, because you are assuming certain builds of perl when you do so. CygWin acts as Unix:

$ uname CYGWIN_NT-5.0 $ perl -e 'print $^X,$/;' perl $ /usr/bin/perl -e 'print $^X,$/;' /usr/bin/perl

(Thanks to tye and bart for clarifying which perls show this behaviour.)


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Re: Re: Using File::Find to find drive (Win32)
by bart (Canon) on Oct 23, 2003 at 21:34 UTC
    That still sounds a bit too hard to me. Why not just examine $^X? This command line:
    perl -le "print $^X"
    which, for me, prints
    D:\programs\indigoperl\bin\perl.exe
    
    so it doesn't just copy the name you called perl with, off the command line.