Hello r@j,

Welcome to the Monastery. It seems the fellow Monks have answer your question already but just to add also another possible uni platform (WindowsOS - LinuxOS) oprtion Proc::Background.

Sample of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Proc::Background;

my $command = 'ls';
my $arg1 = '-la';

# Add an option to kill the process with die when the variable is
# DETROYed.
my $opts  = {'die_upon_destroy' => 1};
my $bg = Proc::Background->new($opts, $command, $arg1);
my $pid = $bg->pid;
say $pid;
$bg = undef;

__END___

$ perl test.pl
9944
[download]

More documentation Review of Proc::Background and similar question to yours process run in background.

Hope this helps, BR.