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Subject: Re: cwdir a part of CGI spec?
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Brian B. wrote,

> require "./common.pl"
> 
> in script.cgi.  With NetSite (and I'm sorry to single it out, Rob, I'm 
> sure others have this problem) I'd have to explicitly state
> 
> require "/path/scripts/common.pl"
> 
> which suddenly make my scripts a lot less portable.  


You can make your scripts more portable e.g.  with

unshift(@INC, $1) if __FILE__ =~ m#(.+)/#;

This looks for a path in the script name, and if it finds one, it adds 
it to the default "INClude" path which "require" uses.

I do this as standard practise for many of my perl scripts so that I 
can run them from the command line from anywhere.


--
Rob Hartill                           
http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/