On Sep 9, Vema Venkata said: >How do i get the process id into a variable ? > >$pid = qx(ps -f|grep srvtst26); > print "Server Started : $pid \n
qx() returns the output. You want to use open(): $pid = open PS, "ps -f | grep srvtst26 |" or die "'ps -f | grep srvtst26' error: $!"; You can read the output from <PS>. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]