Change or rename Perl processes

[Jagavi]

I currently have some Perl executable that runs under Windows. I wish to rename those Perl processes that are underway in the Task Manager. All of my scripts are called perl.exe and so it is difficult to distinguish if there are 5 running at the same time. Do I need a library?

[opaper]

Your scripts are interpreted/compiled/executed by a single executable: perl.exe (or wperl.exe)

I may be wrong but for Windows, this is normal as it displays perl.exe executable program employing a process on your machine. So yes, if you run multiple scripts simultaneously, you'll have several times perl.exe in your task manager.

I do not see how you could change that because it seems that even compiling (this is a big word) your script by Perl2Exe, you'll still like perl.exe name to display!

[!const]

In some systems, it would give you the entire command line used to start the process, and in some OSes, you could even modify $0 to modify in real time and within the process name displayed by "ps" or equivalent! But Windows... sorry, otherwise compile your scripts with Par:: Packer for example (it works, I checked), I do not see.

I think, you could also make it a shell embedded in an executable with a different name, and you could also make copies of perl.exe named differently...

[fellah]

To differentiate the different perl services started with perl.exe or wperl.exe, just make a copy and paste one of these executables in the bin directory of PERL and rename it again from .exe to thenameyouwant.exe. Then you run your .pl file in a DOS window with your new .exe

ex:

x:\perl\bin\copy of wperl.exe (copy of the original)
x:\perl\bin\veriflan.exe (renamed)

And run pl with your x:\perl\bin\veriflan.exe x:\script\yourscript.pl in a DOS window.

And thus, in the taskmanager, you'll see veriflan.exe as a process and wperl.exe

[Praetor]

Under most variants of Unix (including Linux), you will just have to change the value of $0:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; 
use warnings;
$0 = "myprocess";
<>;
__END__