Hi Jose, If you are using ActiveState you could use wperl.exe from your CLI, instead of perl.exe. Regards
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Brian F. Yulga <byu...@langly.dyndns.org>wrote: > Jose Marquez wrote: > >> Hi there >> Sure I am the newbiest of all Perl newbies in this group .... >> Just have been reading some of the posts you all have sent since I >> subscribe to this list What I'm trying to learn these days is how I run a >> Perl script in background on Windows. Can anybody give a hint on it? >> >> > Hi Jose, > > As far as I know, the Windows cmd.exe environment doesn't let you > background a process the same way a unix shell does with '&'. However, I > have used "start" to achieve a similar effect when launching a script: > > C:\> start /b perl script.pl > > Type "start /?" at a cmd prompt to read about the "/B" switch. With this > switch, you'll still have the cmd.exe window open, but the prompt will > return immediately. > > Also, I use this with Strawberry Perl; I don't know if ActiveState has > other tricks you can use. > > Brian > > > Appreciate very much all the help you guys can provide me >> Cheers >> JM >> >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
