it runs fine if I execute it from within the directory where it's located ... However, running it by giving the path gives the following error

This, coupled with the fact you've got relative pathnames in your script, is the very first thing I would fix. You need to have an absolute pathname somewhere, relative to which the filenames should be resolved. It either needs to be hardcoded, in a configuration file whose location is fixed, given by the user, or you can get pathnames relative to the current script's location like so:

use warnings;
use strict;
use FindBin;
use File::Spec::Functions qw/catfile/;
use Config::Tiny;

my $config_file = catfile($FindBin::Bin, 'vnxe_config.conf');
my $array_creds = Config::Tiny->read($config_file)
    or die "Failed to read $config_file";

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Note how you don't need to call ->new if you're also calling ->read, and note how I added a check to make sure ->read isn't returning undef (for example, if it can't find the file). You'll need to use this method of getting an absolute pathname for every filename that you don't want to be resolved relative to the current working directory.

If you still have the same issue after doing this, please let us know.

In reply to Re: Perl script runs fine if exec'd from the directory, but gives error if run outside the directory. by haukex
in thread Perl script runs fine if exec'd from the directory, but gives error if run outside the directory. by pritesh_ugrankar

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