Re: How to end a process started with open "cmd |" before it has output

open will return child.pl's pid, which you can use to kill it.

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Re: Re: How to end a process started with open "cmd \|" before it has output by Crackers2 (Parson) on May 07, 2004 at 03:09 UTC
This worked perfectly thanks !! I missed that line when I was reading the docs.	[reply]