Re^2: Different behavior when parsing $0 on Solaris and Win32

you are replacing the complete part after the first dot in the script path and replace it by .log

Good point. And here is one way of calling the script to reproduce the OP's result:

$ ./my_script_name.pl
.log
[download]

Perhaps the OP has invoked the script differently on the 2 OS's.

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Re^3: Different behavior when parsing $0 on Solaris and Win32 by dirac (Beadle) on Sep 28, 2011 at 13:23 UTC
yes, this is exactly what happens, even setting PATH with the current dir and invoking with: `$ my_script_name.pl` [download] The value of $0 is still the same: `./my_script_name.pl` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]