in reply to How to see the processId of the process called by system command from perl

You can use a piped open to get the pid: 

my $pid = open my $cmd, "-|", 'theCommand parms' or die $!;

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On win32, you can use the return value from system1, ...: 

my $pid = system 1, 'theCommand parms';

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