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From: mgemmel@cs.vu.nl (Martin Gemmel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: pwd?
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Date: 17 Apr 91 09:59:19 GMT
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In article <irrelevant> thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Robert Forsman) wrote:
>  I have a path in $_ that is relative to the current working
>directory.  What is the absolute path to that file?
>
>  Hint: it's NOT `pwd`.$_

No, but how about: $ENV{'PWD'}.'/'.$_

>--
>"Rob, you're stupid, and that makes you dangerous." ...
>[...]
8-)

Martin