I've finally gotten sick and tired of OpenOffice.org taking over 30 seconds to open on my computer, when M$Word running uner Wine (Crossover) is near instantaneous.

Unfortunately, the Gnome OOOQuickstart project is still supporting only Gnome 2.2, so I decided to write a stupid, brute force solution (sort of) in Perl.

Here is my (basically working) code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
 
while (1) {
    
  my $running=`ps ax|grep "soffice.bin -quickstart"`;
  if ($running !~ /openoffice/) {
    # don't match if only the "grep" is there
    sleep 5;
    # give the process time to end to avoid silly crashes...
    system("/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -quickstart -plugi
+n");
  }
}

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My question (given the category I posted under, you knew it was coming to this...) is what would be a "good" Perl solution to this? I mean, this is functional and all, but I'm just making repeated system calls -- my program doesn't deserve the name of perlscript, because it's really just a shellscript in Perl clothing.

In reply to OpenOffice Quickstarter (Linux) in Perl by mpolo

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