Perl Question - Assynchronousness

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, James McDonald wrote:

> I have a perl script which scavenges file off a network share and then 
> formats and feeds them in an ERP system.
>
> What I would like to do is at the moment I feed the file into the ERP I would 
> like to run another perl script which will wait for 10 seconds and then check 
> to see that the ERP has spat the correct information out.
>
> However I want the calling script to continue processing after it calles the 
> called script.
>
> I have been looking at system() but am unsure of how to tell it to launch the 
> script and just keep going without waiting for a reply.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Putting the script into background?

What I mean is
 	perl -e 'system("sleep 30 &");'
as opposed to
 	perl -e 'system("sleep 30");'

Not sure whether this is the best solution...


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Jorge Almeida