From: "Jürgen Exner" <jurge...@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.perl.modules
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Subject: Re: How can I find program location?
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:06:15 -0800
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"John Brock" <jbr...@panix.com> wrote in message
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> I want my Perl program to be able to find its absolute location
> on both Windows and Unix, no matter how it is called.  In particular,
> on Windows the path must include the disk letter (e.g.,
> E:\mystuff\progs\some_dir\my_prog).  How do I do this?

See the FindBin module "perldoc FindBin"

jue