Re: [MacPerl] $0 and $]

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

Matthias Ulrich Neeracher writes:
|Xah Lee <xah@best.com> writes:
|> print $0;
|>in MacPerl, I get the full path of the file name. But on both Linux and
|>FreeBSD boxes I tried, only the abbreviated path is given, e.g.:
|> ./scriptName
|The reason why MacPerl gives a full path is that it has no reasonable
|notion of a "current directory" on which to base relative paths as long
|as no script is running (Once a script is started, the relative path is
|based on the location of the script).

But print $0 (or doing anything else with $0) is only possible if a
script is running...

Brian

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