hello everyone :) today is a beautiful day :)

let's say i have write a program called sample.pl and i put it in /home/aaa/. so, the location of this program is /home/aaa/sample.pl

so, when i am running this program, i need to get the folder name "aaa" to be used as a variable inside this program. how can i do so?

my real situation is like this:
when there is new mails come in, my procmail will automatically run this program "sample.pl" at /home/aaa/sample.pl. then, in this program, i need to retrieve some data from the database using the user id, which is "aaa". that's why i need to get the folder name "aaa". how can i do so?

thank you very much :)

regards,
hweefarn :)

In reply to how to get the current folder name where the program is running? by hweefarn

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