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

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.