wperl in cmd file not returning immediately

Pascal666 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Using file named sleep.pl containing only "sleep 10;", when I run "wperl sleep.pl" from the command line I get another prompt immediately (as expected). When the same command is run from a cmd file however, the cmd file waits for 10 seconds for wperl to finish before continuing. How do I get wperl in a cmd to return immediately? I am using ActivePerl-5.10.0.1005-MSWin32-x64-290470 on Vista sp2 x64.

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Re: wperl in cmd file not returning immediately by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 31, 2009 at 19:21 UTC
Batch files wait for GUI applications to terminate. The interactive shell does not. Replace `wperl -e"sleep 10"` [download] with `start wperl -e"sleep 10"` [download] To get the interactive behaviour in a batch file.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: wperl in cmd file not returning immediately by Pascal666 (Scribe) on Aug 31, 2009 at 22:29 UTC
Works perfectly now. Thank you.	[reply]
Re: wperl in cmd file not returning immediately by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2009 at 08:16 UTC
read 'help cmd' Proc::Background	[reply]
Re^2: wperl in cmd file not returning immediately by Pascal666 (Scribe) on Aug 29, 2009 at 22:03 UTC
Is there a particular section of that man page you thought was relevant? wperl runs in the background just fine when executed from a command prompt. Completely rewriting a script to use Proc::Background should not be necessary.	[reply]