Process Identification

[michael.e.g...@fritolay.com]

Howdy,

I am trying to do some scripting to determine if an NT process is still
active. On a Unix platform if I do
ps -ef | grep ckntbsc, I might get a return such as:

entsys 203318 1 0 05:30:00 - 0:00 perl /entsys/local/bin/ckntbsc

From that I can Identify that ckntbsc is a perl script.

On NT when I do a tlist in a command prompt window, the return is very plain:

150 perl.exe

If I had 5 different perl scripts executing on an NT box, and wanted to kill a
specific one, how would I identify which is which. Is there a way in perl?

Thanks for the help,
Mike

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[Jon Ericson]

michael.e.g...@fritolay.com writes:

> On NT when I do a tlist in a command prompt window, the return is
> very plain:
>
> 150 perl.exe
>
> If I had 5 different perl scripts executing on an NT box, and wanted
> to kill a specific one, how would I identify which is which. Is
> there a way in perl?

Perhaps the $$ variable (documented in perlvar) would be of help.

Jon
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