in reply to Perl Exec with Spaces

I think on Windows, what you're trying to do is best done with system. 

system( 1, qq{"$cmd"} );

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See also launching external program with SYSTEM causes script to hang until program closed among many others.

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Re^2: Perl Exec with Spaces
by nevafuse (Novice) on Mar 11, 2009 at 19:55 UTC
    Thank you, I didn't realize system would allow me to execute something without waiting for it to end.
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