How do I find my runtime directory?

[Joe Cosby]

This seems like a simple thing, but I can't find anything in the "Perl
Cookbook" or the online Perl docs to answer this.

When a script runs from my host's server, the working directory
doesn't appear to be the directory the script is located in. (They
have Perl running under IIS, I don't know what versions).

I tried File::Spec->curdir() , but it just returns ".", which is
accurate, but not very helpful.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

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called an asshole. not like you. (j.richman)

[Joe Cosby]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 12:18:09 -0700, Joe Cosby
<jo******@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com> wrote:

This seems like a simple thing, but I can't find anything in the "Perl
Cookbook" or the online Perl docs to answer this.

When a script runs from my host's server, the working directory
doesn't appear to be the directory the script is located in. (They
have Perl running under IIS, I don't know what versions).

I tried File::Spec->curdir() , but it just returns ".", which is
accurate, but not very helpful.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

Maybe I should clarify what I'm trying to accomplish a little.

I want to be have a relative directory structure within my code. For
instance, within a "code" directoy I have scripts, then a subdirectory
"templates" within "code" contains html templates.

I want to be able to read the templates by loading a file
"templates/templatename.htm", instead of having to hard-code
"e:\www\joecosby\code\templates\templatename.h tm" (the path on the
server) in the code I upload, ""C:\My
Documents\webpage\newstuff\code\templates\template name.htm" (the path
on my local machine) in the code before I upload it, etc.

I mean it's the same idea as using relative references versus absolute
references in HTML, it saves me from a huge amount of maintenance
work.

The perl environment seems to know what directory my script is running
from, when I get error messages they include the complete path to the
script, so if I could just chdir() to that directory at the start of
all my scripts that would at least be a workable solution.

--
Joe Cosby
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"Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I
really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a
circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones." - Roger Ebert

[Jürgen Exner]

Joe Cosby wrote:

When a script runs from my host's server, the working directory
doesn't appear to be the directory the script is located in.
It would be a rare coincidence indeed if the script were located in the
current working directory.
Does anyone know a way to do this?

perldoc Cwd

jue

[Joe Cosby]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:37:29 GMT, "Jürgen Exner"
<ju******@hotmail.com> wrote:

Joe Cosby wrote:

When a script runs from my host's server, the working directory
doesn't appear to be the directory the script is located in.

It would be a rare coincidence indeed if the script were located in the
current working directory.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

perldoc Cwd

Thanks for the help; what I would like to be able to do though, if
possible, would be to somehow determine the path where the script is
located.

I have a directory structure like this on the server:

top page directory
- Code (directory)
---- mail.pl

That is, inside the top directory is a subdirectory "code", and inside
that is "mail.pl".

When mail.pl is called though, the working directory is the top
directory. It would be useful, for a number of tasks, to be able to
determine the location of the script within the code base.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Joe Cosby wrote:

what I would like to be able to do though, if possible, would be to
somehow determine the path where the script is located.

You can use $0 or $ENV{SCRIPT_FILENAME} for that.

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

[Jürgen Exner]

Joe Cosby wrote:
[...]

Thanks for the help; what I would like to be able to do though, if
possible, would be to somehow determine the path where the script is
located.

perldoc FindBin

jue

[Joe Cosby]

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thanks

blrk. I'm making jokes in Perl. That's really not a good sign.

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