$ cat lib/Foo/Bar.pm package Foo::Bar; use warnings; use strict; use Cwd qw/abs_path/; sub foo { my $callerfile = (caller)[1]; print "DEBUG: caller=<$callerfile> \$0=<$0>\n"; return abs_path($callerfile); } 1; $ cat y.pl use warnings; use strict; use Foo::Bar; print Foo::Bar::foo(), "\n"; $ cat x.pl use warnings; use strict; do './y.pl'; $ perl -Ilib x.pl DEBUG: caller=<./y.pl> $0= /tmp/y.pl