Chained execution

nine9 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Newbie-type question

I'm really new to Perl and I was wondering if it's possible to "chain" execution of perl progs, i.e. to have one program call another, and when the child program is finished have control return to the parent...?

Comment on Chained execution

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Re: Chained execution by vroom (His Eminence) on Dec 29, 1999 at 20:04 UTC
The system call does exactly that. All you have to do is something like `system 'program_name';`	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Chained execution by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 1999 at 01:31 UTC
depending on your system you have to call it like system('/usr/bin/perl script_name'); be careful because that command will wait for the program to exit. If you want to chain them, best to either wrap them with a shell script or add an '&' to run the next in the background that way the first script can exit	[reply]