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You cannot reliably suspend Perl compiling until another command runs – I do not think that BEGIN would serve you here. Instead, run the predecessor command, then run the Perl script.
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Re^2: Executing a command after the preceding command finished processing
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 30, 2018 at 16:38 UTC

    You really should hush.

    # File: Mod.pm
package Mod;
sub import { print `date`; sleep 10 };
1;

# File: code.pl
BEGIN { print `date` }
use Mod;
I'm a little tea pot.

# Command line-
moo@cow~>perl code.pl || date
Fri Mar 30 09:37:09 PDT 2018
Fri Mar 30 09:37:09 PDT 2018
syntax error at code.pl line 3, at EOF
Execution of code.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
Fri Mar 30 09:37:19 PDT 2018

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Re^2: Executing a command after the preceding command finished processing
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Mar 30, 2018 at 17:53 UTC
    I think that the OP really meant "execute," not "compile":
    ... needs time to process before the next (and final) line should compile execute...
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      I did indeed mean execute, sorry about that. Corrected.
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