Close Win32-Console CMD.exe

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Re: Close Win32-Console CMD.exe by LanX (Saint) on Dec 24, 2020 at 04:58 UTC
Start with `wperl.exe` and there will be no cmd window at all. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Close Win32-Console CMD.exe by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 24, 2020 at 06:52 UTC
There is no need to open or close a command window to run a Perl program on Win 10. Please show your code. Oh, I see.. You open an O/S window shell by say using 'cmd' and then type in a command that runs a Perl script. The Perl program can exit(), you come back to the window that you started in the first place. Perl can not cause its parent to exit. `#if your Win 10 Perl is configured correctly, #save the following lines as "test.pl". print STDERR "asdasdf\n"; sleep (3); print STDERR "Goodbye\n"; sleep (2);` [download] Double-click on test.pl in the GUI and you will see the result.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Close Win32-Console CMD.exe by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 24, 2020 at 08:00 UTC
A console opened by `perl` will automatically close itself. But if you're launching `perl` from an interactive console, you can have it close automatically after `perl` is done using `perl ... & exit` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Close Win32-Console CMD.exe by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2020 at 13:16 UTC
Cmd.exe ain't nothing but another process, be it parent or child. site:perlmonks.org PilotinControl win32 cmd.exe parent process	[reply]
Re^2: Close Win32-Console CMD.exe by PilotinControl (Pilgrim) on Dec 24, 2020 at 14:00 UTC
@Anonymous Monk thanks for that refresher I had totally forgot about asking that before.	[reply]