Kill a process from perl script

Question

I am trying to kill a process by name which i will pass as a variable to a system command.

Below is what i have:

my $processName=$ARGV[0];
print \"$         


        

Answer 1

my $pid = `ps -ef | grep '$processName' | grep -v grep | awk '{print \$2}'`;
print $pid;
system("kill -9 $pid");

This one works!!!