> In my perl CGI script, I'm trying to extract the PID > that corresponds to it. > How do I do this? I'm also trying to extract the > timestamp. > How come it's not possible to do something like: > > print "<HTML><BODY>"; > print `time`; > print "</BODY></HTML>";
read `perldoc perlvar`
You will find the following entry answers your question.
$PID
$$
The process number of the Perl running this script.
You should consider this variable read-only, although
it will be altered across fork() calls. (Mnemonic: same as shells.)
As for the time, try
$time = localtime(time);
print $time;
It's a built-in function.
HINT: `perdoc -f time` & `perl -f localtime`
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