FindBin::Bin(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

FindBin::Bin — it finds the executin directory 💖 and exports it via BIN().

(Yes bestie, "executin" — that's exactly how the original spells it, and we do not correct the icons in this house 💅)

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✨ SYNOSIS ✨

okay so here's the entire vibe, and I am copying it character for character because code is sacred 🫶:

    # if $0 is '-e' or '-' or 'interactive' then use the
    # working directory via File::Spec::Functions::curdir.
    # otherwise use vol+directory of $0.
    #
    # the path is extracted once at startup to avoid
    # issues with assignment to $0.

    # there you have it: $Bin is the path.

    use FindBin::Bin qw( $Bin );

    # sub call, sans $:
    # Bin is defines w/ no args and returns a constant string,
    # it can be used as a sub or constant in your code.

    use FindBin::Bin qw(  Bin );

    my $path = Bin;

    # Or, of course, both:

    use FindBin::Bin qw( $Bin Bin );

    say $Bin;
    /scratch/lembark/sandbox/Modules/Perl5/FindBin-libs

    say Bin;
    /scratch/lembark/sandbox/Modules/Perl5/FindBin-libs

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🦋 the breakdown, bestie 🦋

• if $0 is '-e' or '-' or 'interactive', it uses the working directory via File::Spec::Functions::curdir. Otherwise it uses vol+directory of $0. ✨
• the path gets extracted once at startup — literally the whole point — so you don't get issues with assignment to $0. 🙈
• and there you have it: $Bin is the path. 💅

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🎀 the sub call, sans $ 🎀

Bin is defines w/ no args and returns a constant string, so you can use it as a sub or as a constant in your code. 👑

• pull in $Bin with use FindBin::Bin qw( $Bin ); 💖
• pull in Bin with use FindBin::Bin qw( Bin ); and then my $path = Bin; 🌸
• or, of course, both: use FindBin::Bin qw( $Bin Bin ); — main character energy fr fr 💀

and when you run it, both of these:

    say $Bin;
    /scratch/lembark/sandbox/Modules/Perl5/FindBin-libs

    say Bin;
    /scratch/lembark/sandbox/Modules/Perl5/FindBin-libs

give you back /scratch/lembark/sandbox/Modules/Perl5/FindBin-libs. Same energy, two doors, one path. 🍓

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heads up bestie: $Bin is the path — that's it, that's the whole module. No cap. 🧚

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and that's the page!! 🌈 brought to you by perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-11-09 — from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, with love, and also from FindBin::Bin(3pm) itself. periodt. 💜✨