Hello Everyone,
I am trying to spawn a program from my perl script - and later on I
would like to kill it. How do I go about doing this?
The approach I have adopted for now is as follows:
Within the perl script:
system($command . ' &');
to put the command in the background.
And later, when it is time to kill the process:
my $pid = `ps -aef | grep $command | grep -v grep | awk \'{print \$2}\'`;
kill 9, $pid;
However this seems like an extremely complicated way to do this.
Ideally, when I am putting the command in the background I would like to
record the process-id. So later on I can just kill 9, $pid.
Does anyone have any idea? I was researching the "fork" command - but
had completely no idea about what the manpage was talking about.
Thanks.
Shouri
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