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

You could use FindBin, Cwd, File::Basename, or a combination of them. They're all in the base distribution of Perl IIRC.

I used Cwd in the past:

Cwd:

use Cwd qw(abs_path);
my $path = abs_path($0);
print "$path\n";