cmd.exe>perl who_called_Perl.pl Perl (PID 17400) was invoked from PID 10576 (cmd.exe) powershell> perl.exe who_called_Perl.pl Perl (PID 18212) was invoked from PID 11272 (powershell.exe) bash$ perl who_called_perl.pl Perl (PID 73288) was invoked from PID 31994 (bash)