Perl and Process ID

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Kurt Wall wrote:

> On Thursday 12 May 2005 11:45, Matthew Carpenter enlightened us
> thusly:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> How do I get the currently running perl app's process ID (short
>> of ps ax |grep )?
>
>
> $$
>
> as in:
>
> $ perl -e 'print "my pid is $$\n"'; my pid is 8079
>
Thanks Kurt, but this gives me the same as &getppid(), which is the
parent process.  Am I missing something?

Thanks.


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