That didn't work. The console, if the window is a certain size, will wrap the lines but it actually appears to cutoff part of the line (even with the ww added). Can I force resize a window, tell the system to pretend my console is a certain size and not wrap the lines, or is there any other way to disregard the size of the window in the script and get the whole output dumped to memory somewhere? 
   28066  p3  S+   353:01.11 perl /Library/WebServer/Documents/perlscr
+ipts/refresh/getDat    ##This is supposed to be getDataLive.pl script
+ i want to monitor.
   571 std  S+     0:00.05 perl systemcmd.pl  ##The name of my script 
+file
   590 std  S+     0:00.02 sh -c ps - auwwx | grep perl
   592 std  R+     0:00.00 grep perl

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Wondering if I'm making this harder than it has to be. Would like to keep from using launchd, not all the mac platform use launchd for services.
Current code below 
        open(PS_F, "ps - auwwx | grep perl |") || die "Can't open cons
+ole\n";
        my @data = <PS_F>;
        close(PS_F);

        my $res_data = join(" ",@data);
        print "Res data is $res_data\n---\n";
        my $comm = $res_data;
        $comm =~ s/\n//g;
        $comm =~ s/\r//g;

        if($comm =~ m/getDataLive.pl/i) {

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In reply to Re^3: Capture Console Results? by ecuguru
in thread Capture Console Results? by ecuguru

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