[vox-tech] perl question: ENV

[Peter Jay Salzman]

you normally dont -- $$ is the pid of the current process.  from within
a perl program, it should be the pid of the program.  from shell, it
should be the pid of your copy of bash.

pete



begin Jay Strauss <jjstrauss@yahoo.com> 
> I spoke too soon. It doesn't work.  How do you assign $
> 
> Jay
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
> To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:05 AM
> Subject: [vox-tech] perl question: ENV
> 
> 
> > i need access to the shell variable $$.   tried this:
> > 
> > my $file = $ENV{$};
> > 
> > which didn't work.  i managed to do it with:
> > 
> > my $file = `echo $$`;
> > 
> > but i'm curious -- is there a way to access $$ with the ENV hash?
> > 
> > pete
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