On Jul 11, saliminl said:
>added print statements before and after the system command to monitor
>progress, but they were not printed until the very end (i.e. 4 runs of
That's because you didn't print any newlines, and output to STDOUT is
newline-buffered.
Add
$| = 1;
before your loop, to turn off buffering (or rather, to turn ON
auto-flushing of the buffers).
>for ($loop = 0; $loop < $opt_m; $loop++) {
> @sander_input = ("nice", "-20", "nohup", "sander", "-O" etc.); # lots of
>flags here
> $job = $loop + 1;
> print "starting job $job";
> system(@sander_input);
> print "finished job $job";
>}
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