Re: Execute the Shell command and continue executing the algorithm

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 5/30/22 04:18, Alexander Zhirov wrote:

> I want to run a command in the background
The closest is spawnShell:

import std.stdio;
import std.process;
import core.thread;

void main() {
  auto pid = spawnShell(`(sleep 10000 & echo SLEEP >> log)`);
  Thread.sleep(5.seconds);
  kill(pid);
  writeln("Terminated with ", wait(pid));
}

I am not good at shell scripting but I had to change your && to & to see 
anything in log.

As std.process documentation explains, the value returned by wait() (and 
more) are platform dependent.

Ali