in reply to Running a process in the background

Since you are refering to the START command, I assume you are on windows. I believe that START /B will execute the command in the background.

For example:

start /b sleep 100

Course this isn't the perl answer...

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OSUnderdog

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Re^2: Running a process in the background
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 23, 2004 at 22:45 UTC
    Hi osunderdog,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I tried doing start /b. The process does run in the background, but the next command (next process) is not executed till the background process finishes.

    What else do you suggest? Thanks.

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