What you're doing right:

use strict;
use warnings;

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The above will save you all sorts of grief as your scripts grow beyond a couple lines. If you progress to the point where they get in your way, you can turn them off selectively, e.g. no warnings 'once'; around code that complains about global variables only being used once.

Under the assumption that your command prompt is "root@kali:", your first script printed "/rootroot@kali:" because the Perl "print" does not append a newline to its output. So your perl script actually printed "/root", and then your shell printed "root@kali:".

As for your second script: are you getting something like "Can't exec /usr/bin/per at fubar.pl line 1."? If so, you need to spell "perl" correctly in the first line of your script. Actually, as posted your first script should have done this also.

The "Cwd" recommendation amounts to

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Cwd;
my $currDir = cwd;
print "$currDir\n";

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In reply to Re: Noob question by Anonymous Monk
in thread Noob question by meanroc

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