Re: start and kill a process in a local shell

See open. Opening a pipe to a program returns that programs PID.

$pid = open $pipe, "/some/program |";
while (<$pipe>) {
    ... # /some/program's output in $_
}
close $pipe;         # program gets a sigpipe
if (kill 0, $pid) {  # still there?
   kill 15, $pid;
}
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