Dan Muey wrote:
> Howdy list what a beautifull Monday eh?
>
>
> I have shell commands I need run from a list that Perl creates based
> on a database.
>
> What I want to do is execute each command and regardless of what
> happens to the external program keep running my perl script.
>
> If I understand it right I need exec() for that.
Yes, but you need to fork() first. exec() replaces your current program with
a new one, so you need to create a new process with fork(), then exec() the
program.
>
> So If I do this :
>
> for(@cmds) { exec($_); }
>
> It will execute $_ and keep cruising regardless of if $_
> worked, failed, wasn't found, etc..
No. See:
perldoc -q background
perldoc -f exec
perldoc -f fork
perldoc perlipc
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