in reply to wperl in cmd file not returning immediately

Batch files wait for GUI applications to terminate. The interactive shell does not. Replace 

wperl -e"sleep 10"

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with 
start wperl -e"sleep 10"

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To get the interactive behaviour in a batch file.

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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.
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