in reply to Re^2: How to kill forked process
in thread How to kill forked process

You can just use the control-c(SIG-INT) to interrupt the current system, and move to the next in the list. Try:
#!/usr/bin/perl $rc = system('top'); $rc = system('date; sleep 10'); $rc = system('top'); $rc = system('date; sleep 10'); $rc = system('top');

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