On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:03, Nikhil Babu <nikhil.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > you can very well try the following > > $x = ENV{'PWD'}; > > this reads the present working directory from the $PWD environment > variable. snip
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