here i am forwarding process status to a file "process",

'ps -ef >process'(this is done by a cron job at every day)

here is part my perl code
 my $uxinfo = "process";
          open(INFO, $uxinfo);
          @uinfo = <INFO>;
foreach my $line (@uinfo)
       {
       chomp($line);
       next if ($line eq "" );
print "$line";}}
}