you normally dont -- $$ is the pid of the current process. from within
a perl program, it should be the pid of the program. from shell, it
should be the pid of your copy of bash.
pete
begin Jay Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I spoke too soon. It doesn't work. How do you assign $
>
> Jay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:05 AM
> Subject: [vox-tech] perl question: ENV
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>
> > i need access to the shell variable $$. tried this:
> >
> > my $file = $ENV{$};
> >
> > which didn't work. i managed to do it with:
> >
> > my $file = `echo $$`;
> >
> > but i'm curious -- is there a way to access $$ with the ENV hash?
> >
> > pete
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