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Things you may want to know:

To fill @baton:
```
my @baton = qw(| \ - /);
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```

1 second seems kinda too much:

select undef, undef, undef, .15;  # or use Time::HiRes
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slightly more inefficient, but (cleaner and) in this context I doubt it cares:
```
push @baton, shift @baton;
print "$baton[0]\b";
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```

How can I start the twirling baton in Perl and then suspend it when I need to execute a system call to run the shell script in Perl?

If I understand your question correctly, which I'm totally unsure about, you may want to read up on $SIG{ALRM}.

In reply to Re: Executing a shell script with progress indicator by blazar
in thread Executing a shell script with progress indicator by axl163

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