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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Thu Jun 30 14:27:08 2005 UTC (21 years, 3 months ago) by root
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CVS Tags: PERL-5-8-7, HEAD
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1 root 1.1 # FindBin.pm
2     #
3     # Copyright (c) 1995 Graham Barr & Nick Ing-Simmons. All rights reserved.
4     # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
5     # under the same terms as Perl itself.
6    
7     =head1 NAME
8    
9     FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
10    
11     =head1 SYNOPSIS
12    
13     use FindBin;
14     use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
15    
16     or
17    
18     use FindBin qw($Bin);
19     use lib "$Bin/../lib";
20    
21     =head1 DESCRIPTION
22    
23     Locates the full path to the script bin directory to allow the use
24     of paths relative to the bin directory.
25    
26     This allows a user to setup a directory tree for some software with
27     directories E<lt>rootE<gt>/bin and E<lt>rootE<gt>/lib and then the above example will allow
28     the use of modules in the lib directory without knowing where the software
29     tree is installed.
30    
31     If perl is invoked using the B<-e> option or the perl script is read from
32     C<STDIN> then FindBin sets both C<$Bin> and C<$RealBin> to the current
33     directory.
34    
35     =head1 EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
36    
37     $Bin - path to bin directory from where script was invoked
38     $Script - basename of script from which perl was invoked
39     $RealBin - $Bin with all links resolved
40     $RealScript - $Script with all links resolved
41    
42     =head1 KNOWN ISSUES
43    
44     If there are two modules using C<FindBin> from different directories
45     under the same interpreter, this won't work. Since C<FindBin> uses a
46     C<BEGIN> block, it'll be executed only once, and only the first caller
47     will get it right. This is a problem under mod_perl and other persistent
48     Perl environments, where you shouldn't use this module. Which also means
49     that you should avoid using C<FindBin> in modules that you plan to put
50     on CPAN. To make sure that C<FindBin> will work is to call the C<again>
51     function:
52    
53     use FindBin;
54     FindBin::again(); # or FindBin->again;
55    
56     In former versions of FindBin there was no C<again> function. The
57     workaround was to force the C<BEGIN> block to be executed again:
58    
59     delete $INC{'FindBin.pm'};
60     require FindBin;
61    
62     =head1 KNOWN BUGS
63    
64     If perl is invoked as
65    
66     perl filename
67    
68     and I<filename> does not have executable rights and a program called I<filename>
69     exists in the users C<$ENV{PATH}> which satisfies both B<-x> and B<-T> then FindBin
70     assumes that it was invoked via the C<$ENV{PATH}>.
71    
72     Workaround is to invoke perl as
73    
74     perl ./filename
75    
76     =head1 AUTHORS
77    
78     FindBin is supported as part of the core perl distribution. Please send bug
79     reports to E<lt>F<perlbug@perl.org>E<gt> using the perlbug program included with perl.
80    
81     Graham Barr E<lt>F<gbarr@pobox.com>E<gt>
82     Nick Ing-Simmons E<lt>F<nik@tiuk.ti.com>E<gt>
83    
84     =head1 COPYRIGHT
85    
86     Copyright (c) 1995 Graham Barr & Nick Ing-Simmons. All rights reserved.
87     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
88     under the same terms as Perl itself.
89    
90     =cut
91    
92     package FindBin;
93     use Carp;
94     require 5.000;
95     require Exporter;
96     use Cwd qw(getcwd abs_path);
97     use Config;
98     use File::Basename;
99     use File::Spec;
100    
101     @EXPORT_OK = qw($Bin $Script $RealBin $RealScript $Dir $RealDir);
102     %EXPORT_TAGS = (ALL => [qw($Bin $Script $RealBin $RealScript $Dir $RealDir)]);
103     @ISA = qw(Exporter);
104    
105     $VERSION = "1.44";
106    
107     sub init
108     {
109     *Dir = \$Bin;
110     *RealDir = \$RealBin;
111    
112     if($0 eq '-e' || $0 eq '-')
113     {
114     # perl invoked with -e or script is on C<STDIN>
115    
116     $Script = $RealScript = $0;
117     $Bin = $RealBin = getcwd();
118     }
119     else
120     {
121     my $script = $0;
122    
123     if ($^O eq 'VMS')
124     {
125     ($Bin,$Script) = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($0) =~ /(.*\])(.*)/s;
126     ($RealBin,$RealScript) = ($Bin,$Script);
127     }
128     else
129     {
130     my $dosish = ($^O eq 'MSWin32' or $^O eq 'os2');
131     unless(($script =~ m#/# || ($dosish && $script =~ m#\\#))
132     && -f $script)
133     {
134     my $dir;
135     foreach $dir (File::Spec->path)
136     {
137     my $scr = File::Spec->catfile($dir, $script);
138     if(-r $scr && (!$dosish || -x _))
139     {
140     $script = $scr;
141    
142     if (-f $0)
143     {
144     # $script has been found via PATH but perl could have
145     # been invoked as 'perl file'. Do a dumb check to see
146     # if $script is a perl program, if not then $script = $0
147     #
148     # well we actually only check that it is an ASCII file
149     # we know its executable so it is probably a script
150     # of some sort.
151    
152     $script = $0 unless(-T $script);
153     }
154     last;
155     }
156     }
157     }
158    
159     croak("Cannot find current script '$0'") unless(-f $script);
160    
161     # Ensure $script contains the complete path incase we C<chdir>
162    
163     $script = File::Spec->catfile(getcwd(), $script)
164     unless File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute($script);
165    
166     ($Script,$Bin) = fileparse($script);
167    
168     # Resolve $script if it is a link
169     while(1)
170     {
171     my $linktext = readlink($script);
172    
173     ($RealScript,$RealBin) = fileparse($script);
174     last unless defined $linktext;
175    
176     $script = (File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute($linktext))
177     ? $linktext
178     : File::Spec->catfile($RealBin, $linktext);
179     }
180    
181     # Get absolute paths to directories
182     $Bin = abs_path($Bin) if($Bin);
183     $RealBin = abs_path($RealBin) if($RealBin);
184     }
185     }
186     }
187    
188     BEGIN { init }
189    
190     *again = \&init;
191    
192     1; # Keep require happy
193