Yes.

if ( kill 0, $process_id) {
    print "process $process_id exists";
}
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This works equally well for both true processes and AS pseudo-processes. See perlfunc:kill with a first arg of 0 for more details.

Thanks!!!

Best regards,
perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

Try something like

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE qw( in );
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::Process;

my $CLASS = "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}\\\\$ENV{COMPUTE
+RNAME}\\Root\\cimv2";
my $WMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject( $CLASS ) || die "Cannot Get list of P
+IDS\n";
foreach my $Proc ( sort {lc $a->{Name} cmp lc $b->{Name}} in( $WMI->In
+stancesOf( "Win32_Process" ) ) )
{
    if ($Proc->{Name} eq "Whatever you are looking for.exe")
    {
        print "$Proc->{ProcessID} is STILL RUNNING\n";
        # We Dont Want to KILL the PID ---Win32::Process::KillProcess(
+$Proc->{ProcessID}, 5);
        # Other Processing Here..;-)
    }
}
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use Win32::process;
Win32::Process::KillProcess($PID,5);
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From the perlvar help - ($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."

Code Ripped from a working script I have running... This peice has not been tested on its own but should work..;-)

Update: Thanks to BrowserUk for reminding me what the question really was..!

The OP didn't want to kill a specific process, only find out if it was still running.

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OOPS... I did read that, but got carried away with ripping a peice of code that I had previously put together that I forgot what the question was... :-(

My First piece of code still works just don't do the kill peice...;)

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