use File::Spec::Functions qw( rel2abs splitpath catpath ); my $RealBin = $0; for( $RealBin ) { $_ = readlink($_) while -l $_; $_ = catpath( (splitpath rel2abs($_))[0,1] ); } #### use File::Spec::Functions qw( rel2abs ); use File::Basename qw( dirname ); my $RealBin = $0; $RealBin = readlink($RealBin) while -l $RealBin; $RealBin = dirname( rel2abs($RealBin) );