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

[walto]

On Linux you can use:
my $pid = `pidof R`;

[Anonymous Monk]

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.

[Corion]

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.