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if( my $pid = fork ) { print "I am the parent pid ($$), and I'm going to wait for $pid to + exit.\n"; ... } else { exec(qw(ls -al /tmp)); die "hrm, exec() failed: $!"; }
# exec(qw(ls -al /tmp)); die ... blah open my $out, ">", "filename" or die $!; ... print $out $_ while <$in>; close $out; close $in;