My Path is set to #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use HTML::Template; # open the html template my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'test.tmpl'); # fill in some parameters $template->param(HOME => $ENV{HOME}); $template->param(PATH => $ENV{PATH}); # send the obligatory Content-Type and print the template output print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n", $template->output; #### My Home Directory is /home/some/directory My Path is set to /bin;/usr/bin