Hello Lovely Monks, I have snippet of code I created to kill user processes. We were to put the processes of a specified user into an array and kill them off one by one. I have the script working with no errors and it is killing off the processes. However I'm getting a system return that is kicking me out of my do-while loop. Not sure why this is happening. Some guidance would be appreciated. This subroutine takes place after I find the user's processes and have already written them to the array and printed the array.

sub kill_process{
   do
    {
     print"Kill processes for the user (y orn?\n";
     my $ans = <>;
     chomp $ans;
     print "choose pid: "\n;
     my $pid =<>;
     chomp $pid;
     system `kill $pid`;
     print "process killed \n";
     }while ($ans eq "Y" || $ans eq "y");
},

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forgot to show the sytem return message IPC::System::Simple::run called with no arguments at testarray_perl line 52. Line 52 is the system kill line.

In reply to Killing processes by deyaneria

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