How to store output into variable in perl

[priyankapendkar]

Hi,

Output of "ps -o etime,time,pcpu ,pmem,fname -C sbd-java"
command is -
Elapsed Time %cpu %MEM COMMAND
02:14:03 00:03:28 2.5 6.3 sbd-java

In shell script-(when i run below code)
X=`ps -o etime,time,pcpu ,pmem,fname -C sbd-java --no-heading|awk '{print $3 }'`;

echo $X

output-2.5

i want use same application in perl script.
Is their any change required in above code.i have tried usind the same code in perl but its not working...)

can you plz tell me what changes need to be do??

[miller]

Just use backticks

my $results = `ps -o etime,time,pcpu,pmem,fname -C sbd-java`;