FindBin will do what you want: 

$ ls -l symlink
lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 22 2011-02-08 10:54 symlink -> foo/bar
$ cd symlink
$ pwd
/home/david/symlink
$ ls -l ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 2011-02-08 10:54 bar

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Note that ls shows us the contents of the parent of the *real* directory that we're in, not the contents of the directory containing the symlink. Symlinks are a bit weird. 

$ perl -MFindBin -e 'print "$FindBin::Bin\n"'
/home/david/foo/bar

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FindBin correctly resolves it, giving us the full path to the directory.

In reply to Re: Surprising behavior of Cwd module on Unix with symlinks by DrHyde
in thread Surprising behavior of Cwd module on Unix with symlinks by Anonymous Monk

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