My limited experience and brief experiments suggest that at least on LINUX, the default working directory is always the directory the Perl script is in

Givein a file:  /home/me/test.txt and a script: /home/me/wd.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Cwd;
print "cwd() is:\t\t",cwd(),"\n";
print "should be:\t\t/home/me/\n\n";

print "\$ENV{PWD} is:\t\t",$ENV{PWD},"\n";
print "should be: \t\t/home/me/\n\n";

print '`pwd` is:',"\t\t",`pwd`;
print "should be:\t\t/home/me/\n\n";

# both work fine
open(FH,'<','test.txt') or die "$!\n";
open(FH,'<','/home/me/test.txt') or die "$!\n";
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... everything works as I expect. whether I call ./wd.pl or /home/me/wd.pl

However, my searches here and on perldoc.com using google and super search have not found official confirmation of this (apparent) fact.

Clues?

email: mandog

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