Thanks much. What about the nohup stuff? Do I need to nohup the script?
Neema Salimi
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>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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