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Perl » System Functions » fork 
fork returns the child's process ID
     

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $f = fork; # Program splits in two here
if (defined $f) {
    if ($f == 0) {
        print "This is the child process\n";
        exit;
    else {
        print "This is the parent process\n";
        exit;
    }
else {
    print "Your system doesn't support fork!\n";
}

   
    
    
    
    
  
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