On 28 maj 2006, at 01.34, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:27:02AM +0200, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat.
How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it?
system('acroread', 'myfile.pdf');
Will it work to:
a) Wait until Acrobat Reader is running
b) Sleep long enough ...
Instead of depending on timing, which will always get messed up when
you can least afford it, get a list of the open files from the system.
man lsof
There should be better ways to get the file handle, but you
