Greetings monks,

I am a very inexperienced perl coder.

I am using perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (ActiveState build 633) on Windows XP.

Out of pure laziness in not wanting to have to click several bookmarks each time I open my browser, I am trying write a short script that open a new Mozilla window, and then pass the -remote command line option to it a few times to open tabs of the URLs that I want to view.

It opens mozilla just fine, but it never seems to get to the last three lines. Is this a place where my complete noncomprehension of the fork command is hindering me?

I tried reading about exec, system, and fork on perl.com, but I got confused when it started talking about zombies. I know that this is probably very simple, but I'm getting a bad case of RTFM burnout.

Here's what I have so far:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
local $ENV{"PATH"} = "c:/progra~1/mozilla.org/Mozilla";
system ("mozilla") || die "can't open mozilla";
system ("mozilla -remote openURL (www.perlmonks.org, new-tab)");
system ("mozilla -remote openURL (www.metafilter.org, new-tab)");
system ("mozilla -remote openURL (www.slashdot.org, new-tab)");

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Edit: $title =~ s/Confusued/Confused/, per request. larsen

In reply to Confused about Fork and System by SteveTheRed

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