writing tests for perl scripts that are part of a larger application. for historical reasons, the scripts do not have a .pl extension. using Test::More
the file I want to test is located in a relative directory "/source/bin"
I'm trying 

unshift @INC, '/source/bin';
require_ok('foo')

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but I get the error message: 

not ok 1 - require foo;
#     Tried to require 'foo'.
#     Error:  Can't locate foo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /source/bin 
+(blah, blah, blah) at (eval 6) line 2.

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maybe the more important question is "can I 'require' a script without a '.pl' extension?" because if I change it to foo.pl the test works. but again, for historical reasons, the scripts do not have extensions and changing that would require more refactoring than I can do (at this time)

In reply to How do I test a script that doesn't have a .pl extension by ten8ciousb

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