in reply to open a command prompt

I'm going to guess that you're running windows, since you didn't pronounce it "terminal"

In such a case, start cmd will open a new window, which you can later close with an exit

I'm not sure what this question has to do with perl however.

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Re^2: open a command prompt
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2011 at 15:59 UTC
    start will generally open a new window -- simply issuing cmd will start a new cmd in the same window

    The op wants to read Behind the GUI lives the Shell

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Re^2: open a command prompt
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2011 at 16:37 UTC
    yes i am running on windows i want to run multiple scripts on multiple command prompts. Is that possible
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