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Seems like a lot of trouble to go to - opening a new shell just to get the current directory. Particularly when Perl has a standard module to do just that.

use Cwd;

print cwd;

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Re: Re: Re: lib
by arhuman (Vicar) on Apr 11, 2001 at 16:12 UTC
    Or even a prefined var ;-)
    print $ENV{'PWD'};

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      I think that might give you problems on non-Unix platforms.

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        It can also be inaccurate on Unix platforms, because it's a function of some shells, not every shell, and certainly not updated on chdir(2).

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      You are both are right, this not a portable way.

      But I DID test it on Both Linux and Windows before submiting, and it worked.
      And as at least one of the other solutions was more platform dependant (`pwd` don't work on windows),
      I've thought it could be an acceptable answer.

      I should have emphasized more about the portability issue, but I was mainly kidding davorg ;-)

      I'll try to be more accurate next time.

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