hello monks here's my problem...... i have a file ..... run.sh which when run creates a log file. the name of the log file contains its PID number(which of course changes each time i run run.sh.) say for example the PID number is 5434...then the logfile name would be hull-5434_static.log . my purpose is to be able to do the pattern matching...in other words the text processing of this log file. i have written a perl code for the text processing part ...and it works fine. the problem is that my code works only when i know the logfile's name. i am not able to dynamically get the name of the logfile each time run.sh runs. so what i want to be able to do is: 1....get the PID number of the log file as soon as run.sh runs. 2....get the logfile name using th PID number. 3....and finally execute my perl code at the prompt 
 

bash# perl tp.pl hull-PID_static.log

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i dont know if this problem involves shell scripting or perl ........please help me guys vineet

In reply to scripting probs by vineet2004

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