Re^3: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program?

Actually, it doesn't.

$ perl -le'print $^X'
/usr/bin/perl
$ cp /usr/bin/perl ~/tmp/
$ ./tmp/perl -le'print $^X'
/home/rafl/tmp/perl
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Cheers, Flo

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Re^4: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program? by mreece (Friar) on Sep 28, 2006 at 19:48 UTC
according to perldoc perlvar, Depending on the host operating system, the value of $^X may be a relative or absolute pathname of the perl program file, or may be the string used to invoke perl but not the pathname of the perl program file. and indeed, `osx% perl -le'print $^X' perl` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program? by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Sep 28, 2006 at 20:59 UTC
There's a recent thread about this: Poll: Is your $^X an absolute path?. -- David Serrano	[reply]