cLive ;-) has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been using this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Cwd 'abs_path';

my $script_dir = substr( abs_path($0), 0, rindex(abs_path($0),'/') )

print $script_dir.$/;

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Seems a little long winded though... Is there a simpler answer?

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Re: Determining the directory the running script is in
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 26, 2007 at 16:35 UTC

    How about

    use File::Basename 'dirname';
use Cwd 'abs_path';

my $script_dir = abs_path(dirname($0));

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Re: Determining the directory the running script is in
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 26, 2007 at 16:42 UTC
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