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in reply to Find Running Process

useautodie qw(:all); 
# single quotes here to keep the backslashes as-is
my $tempfile = 'C:\Testing\TestNotepadRunning.txt';

# double quotes here to interpolate $tempfile
system("TASKLIST > $tempfile");

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