How do I get the full path to a Perl script that is executing?

Question

I have Perl script and need to determine the full path and filename of the script during execution. I discovered that depending on how you call the script $0 va

Answer 1

perlfaq8 answers a very similar question with using the rel2abs() function on $0. That function can be found in File::Spec.

Answer 2

use File::Basename;
use Cwd 'abs_path';
print dirname(abs_path(__FILE__)) ;

Drew's answer gave me:

'.'

$ cat >testdirname
use File::Basename;
print dirname(__FILE__);
$ perl testdirname
.$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi][1]

Answer 3

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;


my $path = $0;
$path =~ s/\.\///g;
if ($path =~ /\//){
  if ($path =~ /^\//){
    $path =~ /^((\/[^\/]+){1,}\/)[^\/]+$/;
    $path = $1;
    }
  else {
    $path =~ /^(([^\/]+\/){1,})[^\/]+$/;
    my $path_b = $1;
    my $path_a = `pwd`;
    chop($path_a);
    $path = $path_a."/".$path_b;
    }
  }
else{
  $path = `pwd`;
  chop($path);
  $path.="/";
  }
$path =~ s/\/\//\//g;



print "\n$path\n";

:DD

Answer 4

Are you looking for this?:

my $thisfile = $1 if $0 =~
/\\([^\\]*)$|\/([^\/]*)$/;

print "You are running $thisfile
now.\n";

The output will look like this:

You are running MyFileName.pl now.

It works on both Windows and Unix.

Answer 5

None of the "top" answers were right for me. The problem with using FindBin '$Bin' or Cwd is that they return absolute path with all symbolic links resolved. In my case I needed the exact path with symbolic links present - the same as returns Unix command "pwd" and not "pwd -P". The following function provides the solution:

sub get_script_full_path {
    use File::Basename;
    use File::Spec;
    use Cwd qw(chdir cwd);
    my $curr_dir = cwd();
    chdir(dirname($0));
    my $dir = $ENV{PWD};
    chdir( $curr_dir);
    return File::Spec->catfile($dir, basename($0));
}