Peter Eisengrein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] suggested:
> print `cd`;
This is very bad advice for several reasons:
- depends on "cd" being in $PATH (or builtin to the shell)
- Perl code need not be started from current directory
If one needs to find his script's home directory, then
FindBin is
--- Peter Eisengrein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> print `cd`;
Prints the current directory only -- I made a similar
error a few weeks ago, by suggesting the Cwd module.
For example, if I call my script as follows:
../bin/where_am_i.pl
I don't get the bin directory -- I get the directory
that the
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple one or two liner snippet
> that i can call to get the current directory of the script
use Cwd;
Example:
C:\1Tmp>perl -MCwd -e "print getcwd"
C:/1Tmp
Tom Wyant
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