Re^2: exec with cleanup

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But then I'd have to wait until the other script ends, before I can finally end this script. It would effectively keep both in memory at the same time. That doesn't look ideal.

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Re^3: exec with cleanup by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2004 at 14:16 UTC
You can do system("perl script2.pl arg1 arg2 &"), which will return immediately. And system("nohup perl scrip2.pl arg1 arg2 &") won't die when the parent process exits.	[reply]

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