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See, i will tell u what exactly is my problem.. I have a perl script. Thru dat perl script im calling a batch script which will launch an application in vmware. Now once that application starts, i want the control back to my perl script. The perl script gets back the control only after i close the application which is running in the vmware. I want the control back as soon as the application starts or gets launched..
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Re^2: Getting back control..to main script
by jethro (Monsignor) on Feb 24, 2011 at 15:15 UTC

    You can do this in perl with fork()+exec(), either directly or through a module like the aforementioned Proc::Background or Parallel::ForkManager. Or you can let the shell do the same trick with backgrounding the process:

    perl -e 'system("emacs &"); print "yes";'

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