in reply to Platform independant PWD

Well you can use `cd` in Win32, but unless you want to install a pwd binary on Win32 I can't think of a real platform independent way to do it.

Update: D'oh! Ok, I forgot about cwd(), but to justify this update I'll just note that `cd` and cwd() give you different directory slashes, which might matter depending on what you wanted to do with the results.

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Re: Re: Platform independant PWD
by tenatious (Beadle) on Nov 16, 2000 at 22:09 UTC
    although, you could write a little trap for OS.... I don't use win32, so I don't know the value of $^O on win32, but you could do something like this: 
    if ($^O =~ /linux/) {
    $working_directory = `pwd`;
} elsif ($^O =~ /win32/) { # or value for win32
    $working_directory = `cd`;
} else {
    $working_directory = "./"; # :)
}

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