in reply to Out of a hole?

well, if you're content with non-'pure perl' way of doing it 
$pwd = `pwd`;  # for unix
$pwd = `cd`;   # I think, for that other OS I never use
chomp($pwd);

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will give you the full path to the current working directory

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RE: Re: Out of a hole?
by barndoor (Pilgrim) on Jul 06, 2000 at 12:48 UTC
    If you want to be a bit more platform independent then stick a test on $^O to determine what sort of machine your running on. 
    if($^O eq "MSWin32")
{
    $pwd = `cd`;
}
else
{
    $pwd = `pwd`;
}

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