Re^3: Executing one script from another

The official Perl documentation can tell you more: system, exec, qx, do.

Why don't you tell us more about what you need?

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Re^4: Executing one script from another by mithun_rh (Initiate) on Nov 11, 2010 at 11:46 UTC
There is one DB process , i want to kill it and its name is another.perl.I have written the script to kill the process. and i want the main program that is test.perl to kill another.perl in the middle of execution ,and test.perl must run even after another.perl is ended .	[reply]
Re^5: Executing one script from another by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Nov 11, 2010 at 12:11 UTC
You simply have to arrange for the assassin to recognize its own foot, so as not to shoot it off. Every process has an id-number, or “pid,” and the loop that goes through shooting bullets must ignore its own pid, thus avoiding shooting itself.