I assume from your mention of 'at' that you are running on Win32 systems, in which case using '&' on the end of your command line does not background a task.

Use this instead. 

system( 'start /b yourcommand 1>nul 2>&1' );

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The call to system will return immediatly and the command will run in the background.

Note the redirection of the output though. If there is any possibility of the command producing any output then you should redirect it somewhere safe.

I've redirected to the nul device by way of example, but you probably want to change that to go to a log file somewhere.

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In reply to Re: running another script without waiting by BrowserUk
in thread running another script without waiting by crammed_in

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