Yep I did really want FindBin, as I did not know the possible problems with $0,
-----Original Message----- From: NYIMI Jose (BMB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 January 2003 10:13 To: Brian Ling; Mark Goland Cc: perl Subject: RE: Path to script > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Ling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:59 AM > To: NYIMI Jose (BMB); Mark Goland > Cc: perl > Subject: RE: Path to script > > > Thanks for that, > > I'll go with the File::Basename option as I may need to > change the 'pwd' by the time the call is made. Be aware that $0 doesn't always contains the full path of your script Example: myhost:> ./myscript.pl Running a script with above command line, $0 will be ./myscript.pl So File::Basename will no longer help. So I suggest you using FindBin module instead: C:\>perldoc FindBin NAME FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script SYNOPSIS use FindBin; use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib"; or use FindBin qw($Bin); use lib "$Bin/../lib"; DESCRIPTION Locates the full path to the script bin directory to allow the use of paths relative to the bin directory. This allows a user to setup a directory tree for some software with directories <root>/bin and <root>/lib and then the above example will allow the use of modules in the lib directory without knowing where the software tree is installed. If perl is invoked using the -e option or the perl script is read from "STDIN" then FindBin sets both "$Bin" and "$RealBin" to the current directory. EXPORTABLE VARIABLES $Bin - path to bin directory from where script was invoked $Script - basename of script from which perl was invoked $RealBin - $Bin with all links resolved $RealScript - $Script with all links resolved KNOWN BUGS if perl is invoked as perl filename and *filename* does not have executable rights and a program called *filename* exists in the users "$ENV{PATH}" which satisfies both -x and -T then FindBin assumes that it was invoked via the "$ENV{PATH}". Workaround is to invoke perl as perl ./filename AUTHORS FindBin is supported as part of the core perl distribution. Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> using the perlbug program included with perl. Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1995 Graham Barr & Nick Ing-Simmons. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: NYIMI Jose (BMB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 January 2003 09:48 > To: Mark Goland; Brian Ling > Cc: perl > Subject: RE: Path to script > > > Have a look to : > > http://search.cpan.org/author/LIBERTY/Cwd-2.06/Cwd.pm > > José. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Goland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:42 AM > > To: Brian Ling > > Cc: perl > > Subject: Re: Path to script > > > > > > my $path=`pwd` on *nix > > my $path=`cd` on win* > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brian Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:25 AM > > Subject: Path to script > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have the following bit of code that works out the > > directory path to > > > the currently executing script. > > > > > > My $path = $0; > > > $path =~ s#(^/.+/).+$#$1# ; > > > > > > This works but doesn't make me happy, is there a better way? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > > BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain > > > personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless > > specifically > > > stated. > > > If you have received it in error, please delete it from > > your system, do > > > not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in > > > reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. 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