I agree, this is probably a "faux" problem

If you use system to open a program, i.e:

`gimp`;
print "gimp was closed\n";
print "... lots and lots of commands next";

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the script is stopped until the first line is finished, so the second, third etc lines, are "frozen" and never run until you close manually this gimp session.

 delete a folder which is created by this program after it gets closed by the user

It depends on your specific case, you could need to add another system line below doing the cleanup, a rmdir $dir line, or nothing

In reply to Re^2: Perl script to wait for a program to finish by pvaldes
in thread Perl script to wait for a program to finish by renzosilv

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