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> From: Somu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 08:27
> To: Beginners@perl.org
> Subject: System
>
> About that PID problem, i found a program in Windows named tasklist,
> it prints all the processes running on the system with its id. I used
> the system command to execute the tasklist, like as
>
> my $data = system "tasklist" ;
>
> but i got nothing in $data. How can i get the data from the
> system command?
system only returns whether it was successful or not ( ie 0 or
non zero ). If you want to capture that output, then use the
backtickslike
my $data = `tasklist`;
Now you can parse the list for what you are looking for.
Wags ; )
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