script to find the current directory

[Kannan Ekanath]

Hi,
stuck up with this real sitter. can someone tell me how to find the full
path of the current directory inside a pearl script (because the script
can be called from different directories i just wanted to know the full
path of the directory i.e, the caller).

saw things like
my @filelist = global("*");
to get the file list...is there any way to get the current directory
Right now i am using the alternative of pwd >> somefile and picking it
up from there

Thanks
Kannan

 

[Todd de Gruyl]

can someone tell me how to find the full path of the current directory

Here are two ways:

use Cwd; # more portable
my $dir = cwd;

or

my $dir = `pwd`; # assuming unix-like os here
chomp $dir;

 

[Jürgen Exner]

stuck up with this real sitter. can someone tell me how to find the
full path of the current directory [...]

perldoc Cwd

jue