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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
11 Dec 2003
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Portable chdir('/'); (Score:1)
If one is at the root of the filesystem on *NIX (root of volume on OS's?) Then
@CWDis the empty list. However, setting@CWD=();leaves your process in its current location, at least on Perl 5.8.0 on Linux with File::chdir 0.06.This, a portable way to get to the top of the directory structure, would be a great feature and it seems that some thought has been given to implementing such a thing. There is a
sub CLEARdefined in the package which sets a package variable but the directory position remains unchanRe:Portable chdir('/'); (Score:2)
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