The title is a little vague :)

What I'm trying to do is figure out where a script is run from. I'm trying to do this from both a windows enviroment and unix...

Here is an example...

If I put the perl script in ~/bin and I type mailme.pl from another location. It should find a configuration file I've got in ~/bin.

Instead, it tries to find it in the current directory.

here is the relevant portion of my script...

use File::Basename;

# Get configuration information

my $baseLoc = dirname($0);
print "$baseLoc\n";

my %configs;
getConfig($baseLoc);

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In reply to Getting a directory location by wfelde

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