On Jun 13, 7:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 13, 4:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owen) wrote: > > > I thought there may have been a perl command like "getpid (program)" > > but it doesn't seem so. > > Yeah, sometimes when we make up commands they don't work. > > Try the special variable $$ (perldoc perlvar)
$$ is the pid of the Perl program itself. It has nothing to do with finding the pid of any given process, as the OP wants to do. Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
