rsiedl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

Could anyone tell me if there is an environment variable for the directory that a script resides in (not runs from), or if there is another way of working this out?

Cheers, Reagen

Update: s/environmental/environment/i

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Re: Environmental Variable for residing directory
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 01, 2004 at 11:57 UTC
    Environment Variablesenvironmental variables are accessed through %ENV, you can see them all if you 
    use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper( \%ENV );

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    What you want is to read How do I get the full path to the script executing?

    update: yes, Environment Variables

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•Re: Environment Variable for residing directory
by merlyn (Sage) on Oct 01, 2004 at 11:55 UTC
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      You want FindBin.
      ... or not. See use lib qw(relative path) for a recent discussion of alternatives to FindBin.

      In fact (nod to PodMaster's pointer) I'm surprised the Q&A hasn't been updated.

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