I have a bash script that opens a browser for a few seconds, and then closes it.

Could someone point me up the equivelant in perl?

I reckon this amounts to, what's the process for translating forking from bash to perl. 

#!/bin/bash
konqueror http://www.google.com &
pid=$!

# give the page some time to load
sleep 5
kill $pid

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UPDATE:

By the way, this isn't an academic question -- I'm using this simple script to verify various html downloads by checking the konqueror html cache for text strings I'm interested in, for pages that can't be easily downloaded with wget/web mechanize because of javascript and redirect nastiness.

Also, for those interested in shell-equivelance strategies, I posted essentially the same question to haskell-cafe.

In reply to open a browser from the command line, wait a few seconds, and shut it. (ie, translate forking from bash to perl) by tphyahoo

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