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The name of the program is in $0, and the path can be found with FindBin.

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Re^2: who am I?
by Lawliet (Curate) on Sep 24, 2008 at 19:37 UTC

    I have read that $0 also gives the path on some operating systems. Maybe it was in an outdated book ",

    I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

    chomp; # nom nom nom
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      Yes it does include the path. I use the following to get just the base file name of the program: 
      use File::Basename;

my $MyName = (fileparse($0, '\..*'))[0];

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