Hello Perlmonks,

I need to call a shell script in Perl like `xyz abcd`.
xyz - shell script
abcd - parameter (program name)

"xyz" script is to determine if any program name and parameter,if any, passed in is actually a running process and if so, returns count of running instances.

When I call $count=`xyz abcd` in a perl program, it should return "1". But it returns "2".

Below are the running instances,
sh /test/xyz abcd
/usr/bin/perl ./abcd.pl

Could you please guide me to suppress "sh /test/xyz abcd"?

Thnaks for your help.

Janitored by holli - removed pre tags

In reply to Call shell script in Perl by Anonymous Monk

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