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From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl beginner
Message-ID: <EcEkB=i00VsnE622gr@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 01:26:35 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm a Perl beginner, but I'm amazed by how quickly I've picked up the
language and how quickly I've been able to write really complex
utilities.  To an experienced C programmer like myself, Perl came very
naturally and it is now my prototype/utility language of choice.  OK,
enough hype. :-)

It seems that Perl ought to have a built-in getwd command, but it
doesn't.  Is it the case that the only way to find out the current
working directory is to do

	$cwd = `/bin/pwd`;
	chop $cwd;

?

Thanks in advance.

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