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>.

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