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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jerry Preeper <preeper@cts.com>
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Subject: Re: how to get name of perl program running from pid 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:12:49 PST."
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:12:49 PST, Jerry Preeper wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a way to find out which perl program is being
> run by knowing it's PID.

This'll work with a lot of Bourne / Korn shells:

	foo=`ps PID`; echo ${foo##* }

Obviously, PID represents the actual number you'd plug in.  And yes,
there are _lots_ of ways to do this.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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