Hi,

I found, that perl only looks in
* the actual directory, or
* in the path which I provided for the script


Is it possible to provide something like a PATH environment variable, which tells perl where to look for *.pl skripts?

I created foo.pl for testing purposes in the directory C:\MyDir:
print "bar\n";

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And tested here:
C:\MyDir>perl foo.pl
bar

C:\MyDir>cd ..

C:\>perl foo.pl
Can't open perl script "foo.pl": No such file or directory

C:\>perl -I C:\MyDir foo.pl
Can't open perl script "foo.pl": No such file or directory

C:\>set PATH=%PATH%;C:\MyDir

C:\>perl foo.pl
Can't open perl script "foo.pl": No such file or directory

C:\>perl C:\MyDir\foo.pl
bar

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As noted above, I would like to start foo.pl by 
C:\>perl foo.pl

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I carefully readed http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html and found the switch -S, which includes the path environment variable for searching. So 
C:\>perl -S foo.pl

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Works

In reply to Where does perl looks for perl skripts [Answered] by BluePerl

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