Fellow monks, I am trying to capture output from a spawned child. But no luck, can someone help me? So I ended up processing everything at the child level. Below is a code snipet: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -W
use scr_rsh;

my @properties = ("run","conf");
my $cmd_run = "ps -ef|grep match | grep \"    1 \"|wc -l";
my $cmd_conf = "wc -l /usr/local/match.conf";
my ($pid,@pid);

my $passwd = ask;
print "\n";

# hash of hashes
our $domatch = {};   # Hash of Hashes

# set default values of HoH
for(my $key1 = 0; $key1 <= $#ARGV; $key1++) {
   foreach my $key2 (@properties) {
      my $domatch = {
         $ARGV[$key1 ] => {$key2=>'0'}
      };        
   }    
}# Fork processes
for($key1=0, $i = 1; ($i <= 2) && ($key1 <= $#ARGV); $i++,$key1++) {
   $pid=fork();
   push @pids, $pid;
   if($pid == 0) { 
      #Child  Process
      $domatch->{$ARGV[$key1]}->{"conf"} =  &get_proc_run($passwd,$ARG
+V[$key1]); #wanted to pass this result to parent
      $domatch->{$ARGV[$key1]}->{"run"} =  &get_proc_conf($passwd,$ARG
+V[$key1]); #wanted to pass this result to parent
      &prt_result($ARGV[$key1]); # wanted to execute this after all ch
+ild are done
      exit(0);
   }
   if("$i" == "2") {
      $i=0;
   }
}

foreach my $childpid (@pids) {
   waitpid($childpid,0);
}

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In reply to parent wants to capture output from a spawned child by perlknight

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