Greetings from a lowly altar boy,

I have been asked by my manager to write a number of database querying, timestamping, and error reporting scripts and modules.

I have an email script that generates an email with a timestamp and I would like it to report who called the script. Something similar to $0 but for the parent script. I'm quite new to Perl so I don't know all the technical terms.

For example the call would be: 

#args(script to be called, subject, message body)
my @args = ('sendmail.pl', 'An error has occurred!', Error!');

system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?";

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And then I would like sendmail.pl to know which script called it without passing additional arguments. Is this possible?

Right now sendmail.pl is just a script but would converting it into a module make things easier (obviously renaming it in the process)? All it does is take arguments and shoots out an email.

Thanks a ton.

Greg

In reply to Filename of parent script available? by Anonymous Monk

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