Noting that I do not necessarily recommend this procedure, yet use it on occasion (in an environment where I implicitly trust the user - me):

# Ugly trick to let us use our modules while calling the script from e
+lsewhere
use lib substr($0, 0, rindex($0, '/'));
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I now have access to the script's directory and can use modules located there, even though I was in another directory when I executed the script.

$Pretty--
$Effective++

Russ
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