Re: How could you make a script think it's running in its own directory?

I prefer File::Basename for that:

use File::Basename;

my $base = dirname $0;
chdir $base
    or warn "Couldn't find base directory '$base'. Using current direc
+tory.";
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This fails if you have weirdo symlinks pointing around. There is FindBin which goes through weird contortions to cover special cases but opens up other venues of failure cases.

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Re^2: How could you make a script think it's running in its own directory? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 27, 2008 at 09:28 UTC
__FILE__?	[reply]
Re^3: How could you make a script think it's running in its own directory? by why_bird (Pilgrim) on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:06 UTC
How does __FILE__ help? Would you use it with chdir? ........ Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Groucho Marx .......	[reply]
Re^4: How could you make a script think it's running in its own directory? by parv (Parson) on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:48 UTC
Just Try It ... `use File::Basename qw/ fileparse /; print join "\n" , __FILE__ , ( fileparse __FILE__ )[1] ;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]