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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