If you just want to fire off a process, system() works just like the shell. If you want to put your command in the background to get control back, add a '&' to the end of the command.<br><br>Garth<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Loo, Peter # PHX</b> <<a href="mailto:Peter.Loo@source.wolterskluwer.com">Peter.Loo@source.wolterskluwer.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Hi David,<br><br>I did try exec() and system(). However, exec() stops my calling program<br>while system() waits for the called program to finish.<br><br>Peter<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: sanfrancisco-pm-bounces+peter.loo=
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</a><br>g] On Behalf Of David Fetter<br>Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:55 AM<br>To: San Francisco Perl Mongers User Group<br>Subject: Re: [sf-perl] Spawning external program within Perl<br><br>On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:48:11AM -0700, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:
<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I was wondering if there is a built-in Perl module that would allow<br>me to<br>> spawn an external program and not wait for it to complete. What I<br>am<br>> attempting to do is, I am checking within a database for a
<br>condition and<br>> when the condition is met, I want to call an external Perl<br>program.<br>> However, I don't want to wait for the external program to complete<br>before<br>> moving on to my next step within my program.
<br><br>About ten seconds of searching with perldoc -q led me to<br><br>perldoc -f exec<br><br>What did you try before asking here?<br><br>Cheers,<br>D<br>--<br>David Fetter <<a href="mailto:david@fetter.org">david@fetter.org
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