I think exec effectively exits your perl script, you might try system, do, backticks or
Use the imagemagic module to do all of this for you.
perldoc -f exec
perldoc -f system
Dan
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>
> Hi friends
> I am doing exec in a foreach loop, resizing images.
> But as the the exec is kicked off, it never returns....
> What's the way out?
> Here's the snippet
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> foreach(@$ref) {
>
> $imgFile = @$_->[1].jpg;
> $thbFile = @$_->[1]-t.jpg;
> $convertedSize = @$_->[3]."x".@$_->[4];
>
> exec("convert $imgFile -resize $convertedSize $thbFile");
>
> }
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>
> The loop executes only once, as the exec forks out and waits
> infinitely Help appriciated. Thanks Aman Raheja AGF Inc.
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