In perl how to get current directory path of any process?

Question

In Perl, I want to get the current working directory of any process.

e.g. We have command "pwdx" in unix which gives current working directory of a process.

I want similar "pwdx " in perl.

Please let me know any Perl command which gives me current working directory of a process.

Note: I am on Windows platform and not in Unix platform.

Regards,

Amol

Is $ENV{PWD} not set on windows? – Len Jaffe Jul 16 '14 at 15:32 — Len Jaffe, Jul 16 '14 at 15:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

You could get the details about a process (along with current working directory) with wmic or handle shell commands, as described in this question: windows batch command to determine working directory of a process

Then you could use that command with backticks (``) to get the output and use a regex to get the current working directory.

Note: I'm not on windows so I can't test the commands.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 08 '15 at 21:53

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You might look at Win32::Process modules.

edited Sep 08 '15 at 21:53

brian d foy

answered Jul 16 '14 at 12:58

Neil H Watson

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