There's also no guarantee that you're going to have a HOME environment variable either.

More importantly, it'll definitely be the wrong HOME if I run your script rather than you.

Even your second solution is wrong in this respect.

The only solution is to fully hard-code the path. That's the point of "use lib", anyway!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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