Re: Dumb path question

At 21:10 -0600 9/3/09, Doug McNutt wrote:

>At 22:24 -0400 3/9/09, Chris Devers wrote:
>>How can a Perl script reliably, portably resolve the path inside which
>>it is running?...
>
>$0  That's a zero.  Has always worked for me to produce a full path 
>to a running perl script.
>
>...There is a module "cwd"...

or rather Cwd.  $0 will give the name but not the full path, so I'd suggest
the following:

#usr/bin/perl
use Cwd;
my $currentdir = cwd();
print "$currentdir/$0\n";

JD