Re^2: How to see the processId of the process called by system command from perl

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with pidof how to get the output of othe command which gets executed. For example if the command to be executed is "date" I want to get the output of the command to a perl variable and also the pid number.

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Re^3: How to see the processId of the process called by system command from perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 31, 2012 at 14:22 UTC
Have you read the pidof manpage? It tells you what `pidof` does. It only finds the pid of a running process. It does not launch a process.	[reply] [d/l]

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