in reply to Re: backticks & job control
in thread backticks & job control

you mean with fork() ? mmmm... I've always been much afraid of forks/threads, don't even know where to begin... alessandro

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Re^3: backticks & job control
by pajout (Curate) on Mar 01, 2006 at 16:09 UTC
    I was in the similar situation some weeks ago, there is a snippet: 
    my $pid = fork();
if ($pid) {
  #parent process continues here, $pid contains children pid
} else {
  #child process continues here
  exec('some_command');
}

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