in reply to spawn process

Why do you need the pid if all you are going to do is wait until it finishes? 

system 'yourcommand';
##now it is finished.

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Re^2: spawn process
by brian42miller (Sexton) on Jul 08, 2011 at 20:09 UTC
    I need to spawn multiple processes and have them running in the background while the main program is doing other things and just monitoring for completion of the other processes. Brian
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      If you are on Windows then you can do:

      my $pid = system 1, 'yourCommand';

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      On other platforms you'll need to fiddle around with fork & exec.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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