#!/usr/bin/perl use Cwd; for $dir ('real/subdir', '../link/subdir') { print "changing to $dir\n"; chdir $dir; where(); } exit; sub where { print "pwd : ", `pwd`; print "cwd : ", Cwd::cwd, "\n"; print "getcwd : ", Cwd::getcwd, "\n"; print "fastcwd: ", Cwd::fastcwd, "\n"; }