On Feb 5, 9:28 ¨Âí¬ ÒïçåÐáãë ¼òïçåòðáãë²®®®Àçíáéì®ãïí÷òïôåº > > ¨Â èáöå ôï çåôèðòïãåóéä æïóðåãéæéåòõâù ðòïçòáí® > > (e.x) $0 returns the current process name Process.pid returns the > > current > > process id.So how can i get the specified program's pid. > > So you want something like "lookup some other ruby program's PID"? > -r Presumably, in which case you want sys-proctable. gem install sys-proctable Regards, Dan