I've got this shell script:
#!/bin/sh
ps axc|awk "{if (\$5==\"$1\") print \$1}";... which gets a PID if you feed it the process' name. Is there a way to translate this into Perl using a standard Perl distribution? I mean, without calling 'ps'; I've learned enough Perl now to be able to do that, but I'd like to see if there's a cleaner way. I don't know, maybe process names aren't something other operating systems have, so Perl doesn't have anything for them--I'm on Mac OS X.
I checked everything that was indexed in Programming Perl that looked likely, but obviously I didn't find anything.
Michael
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