program knowing current directory (perl)?
 

hey, i am writing this crappy little script that will just create an html file from the contents of the directory i am in. right now the script just uses CWD but i have to copy and paste it into each directoyr i want to do this on, which is a pain in the butt. so i would like to be able to make this program "global" (put it in the usr bin) and somehow have it know what direcotory i am in. is there any way for this to happen?

Wait a minute--do you want it to know the home directory or the current directory?

The topic says "home", the message says "current".

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my bad. i want the program to be global. but i want it to konw what folder i am in. so say i am in /home/user/public_html/bla. i want to call the program, and it will create an index.html file in public_html/bla with the files in that folder. so, the topic should say current, and i will change that. thanks.

In that case, Fascistchicken explained it very clearly and simply.

Although that may simply be a shell construct (I don't know) in which case it wouldn't work anywhere else.

uhm, it may just be me but fascistchickens post is empty?

Just look at the value of "$ENV{'PWD'}"

No, it's not empty. The answer is right there in the body of his post.

very weird, here is what i see on my screen

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i will try that $ENV dealy

even though this is of little importance, I see what sk8guitar sees ;-)

I see it too.
Look closely and you will see it as well.
...

;) .

very subtle fascistchicken.

hahaha if he means the ./ to say that its in the current directory, i don't know if that will work becuase the script is in one directory and i am in another. and i tried in the shell to do $ENV{'PWD'} and it didn't know what i was talking about? am i typing this in wrong?

By shell I asusme you mean bash?
In the title you said perl


./ will work since it is teh directory YOU are in but it will not give you the full path - hence why I suggested the environment variable.

Yes, that is correct :)

yeah, but i tired the einvroment variable like you said it doesn't seem to be working.