Re^3: how to open a separate notepad

I think you mean "fork" and then "exec" in the new child process.

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Re^4: how to open a separate notepad by inman (Curate) on Jul 22, 2005 at 11:40 UTC
You are entirely correct. I was testing with a one-liner (`perl -e "exec('test.txt')"`) which doesn't point out that you never reach the line following the exec (because there isn't one!). Unfortunately, `system` by itself doesn't help because the Perl script is left waiting for notepad (or your favourite editor) to return. thundergnat provides the answer by modifying the command line to use the windows `start` command. This appears to be equivalent to the UNIX trailing apostrophe. `print "This happens before\n"; system ("start test.txt"); print "This happens afterwards\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: how to open a separate notepad
by inman (Curate) on Jul 22, 2005 at 11:40 UTC

perl -e "exec('test.txt')"

system

thundergnat provides the answer by modifying the command line to use the windows start command. This appears to be equivalent to the UNIX trailing apostrophe.

print "This happens before\n";

system ("start test.txt");

print "This happens afterwards\n";
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