Hello Monks,

To make a decision further in my program, i need to check if a process is running or not and for that i am trying following.


use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $BACKUPSTATE = "tasklist.exe";
my $state = "ovbbccb";

    open (DDDD, "$BACKUPSTATE |") || die "Failed: $!\n";
    my @cmdout;
    while ( <DDDD> )
    {
        @cmdout = $_; 
    }
    close (DDDD);

    
print "Output of command is =" . Dumper(@cmdout);

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i am expecting the complete output of command tasklist.exe but the output is just last line

output: Output of command is =$VAR1 = 'tasklist.exe                  2
+716 RDP-Tcp#1
             3      5\'936 K
';

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How can i get complete output in array so later i can use it to grep $state

In reply to Why cant i save output of tasklist.exe in an array? by swissknife

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