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Developus
Developus

Reputation: 1462

Perl - get abs path to module from other directory in main script

I created a simple perl script which is splited into 2 files - main.pl and content.pm The main script is placed in Project directory and content.pm (module) is placed in Project/utils directory. Now I want to use content.pm in main.pl I made something like this to use this module: 

use Cwd;
use lib Cwd::abs_path(getcwd()."/utils");
use utils::content;

but if I do it this way, I get an error:

Cant locate utils/content.pm in 
@INC (you may need to install the utils::content module) 
@INC contains: /Perl/utils /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24.1 ...) 
at ./main.pl line 10.

Is it possible to run this main.pl script using content.pm with no errors? Maybe I should not use getcwd() (I think it use a working directory instead of abs_path, but I'm not sure)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 166

Answers (1)

Sobrique
Sobrique

Reputation: 53498

I think what you're looking for is FindBin.

Specifically:

use FindBin qw( );
use lib $FindBin::RealBin."/utils"; 
use content;

Upvotes: 5

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