I got a perl script thing In it i want to run an external app. To my knowlage that leaves me with eather System() or exec() But neater will do what i want. I want to run the external app. but then just forget that i did it so that the script continues on and eventually ends but leaves the process that it started still runnig. How can I do this if i even can
`/path/to/prog & >/dev/null &` will start a process and send it into the background... can grab results using $var = `/path/to/prog & >/dev/null &`; back tics do the same thing as exec
Ok then your $var = ..... raises another question then. should i do that would the script still continue on and eventually exit when it reaches the end of the SCRIPT. If so then what would be the point of storing the output in $var. is it possable to retreve the $var info upon reexecutition of the script? O and your trick thing DID work with out the $var part. I havent tried it with the $var
the $var part just captures standard output, here you are routing that to /dev/null so you wont get anything. If you want to read it back later route output to a file then read that. `/path/to/prog & >/test.txt &` then read test.txt later...
