Re: How do I start two programs without waiting for first one to be finished ?


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Re: How do I start two programs without waiting for first one to be finished ?

by runrig (Abbot)

on Oct 17, 2000 at 04:23 UTC ( [id://37065]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to How do I start two programs without waiting for first one to be finished ?

Fork them and run in the background:

system "( sleep 10; ls -l ) &";
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Or use fork() explicitly:

if ( $pid = fork ) {
    # this is the parent
}
elsif ( defined $pid ) {
    # this is the child
    system "myprogram";
}
else {
    die "can't fork: $!";
}
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