Finding out name and path of script file

crenz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This sounds like a trivial question, but somehow I can't find the answer. I'd like to be able to find out the location of the script file that is being executed by perl. $0 won't do, because it doesn't contain the path. Cwd won't do, because on Mac OS X, the operating system sets the current working directory to /.

Can anyone help me out?

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Re: Finding out name and path of script file by Fletch (Bishop) on May 26, 2004 at 23:36 UTC
Erm, no. `Darwin lemur.phydeaux.org 7.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.3.0: Fri Mar +5 14:22:55 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.15.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power M +acintosh powerpc lemur:~ 604> ( cd /tmp ; perl -MCwd -le 'print getcwd' ) /private/tmp` [download] Perhaps if you included more details about how you're running it (and see the FindBin module).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Finding out name and path of script file (!FindBin) by tye (Sage) on May 27, 2004 at 00:11 UTC
Did you know that FindBin is "broken" (well, perverse)? Just use File::Spec: `require File::Spec; my $script= File::Spec->rel2abs( $0 )` [download] - tye	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Finding out name and path of script file by crenz (Priest) on May 27, 2004 at 00:01 UTC
Thanks for your fast reply, Fletch. I knew there must be something, but couldn't find anywhere. FindBin does what I mean. Perfect, thanks! As for changing the path, I should have included more context, sorry. I was talking of running GUI applications in Mac OS X ".app" format (and using a perl script as the executable), and not of standalone scripts, of course.	[reply]