Re: search for a file

Perl does not look in your PATH environment variable for files. It looks in the current directory, unless you give it a FULL file path.

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Re^2: search for a file by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Jun 08, 2006 at 15:28 UTC
That depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Erm, I mean... You can do `-e '../foo/bar'`, which checks a file in a different directory, but I don't consider a relative path to be "a FULL file path" either. That's just semantics, I know, but it seemed like something worth clarifying in case the OP reads your comment the way I did. To the OP: It works like filename arguments (which ignore $PATH), not executable filenames (which search $PATH). `ls foo` only looks in the current directory, `ls /bin/foo` only looks in /bin, and `ls ../bar/foo` only looks in ../bar. `-e` works the same way.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: search for a file
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Jun 08, 2006 at 15:28 UTC

You can do -e '../foo/bar', which checks a file in a different directory, but I don't consider a relative path to be "a FULL file path" either. That's just semantics, I know, but it seemed like something worth clarifying in case the OP reads your comment the way I did.

To the OP: It works like filename arguments (which ignore $PATH), not executable filenames (which search $PATH). ls foo only looks in the current directory, ls /bin/foo only looks in /bin, and ls ../bar/foo only looks in ../bar. -e works the same way.

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