tphyahoo: > I have a bash script that opens a browser for a few seconds, and then > closes it. > > Could someone point me up the equivelant(s) in haskell, h4sh, hsh, > etc,0 and friends? > > I reckon this amounts to, what's the process for translating forking > from bash to haskell. > > ******** > > #!/bin/bash > konqueror http://www.google.com & > pid=$! # give the page some time to load > sleep 5 > kill $pid > > ********
Something like: import System.Posix main = do p <- run "xclock" [] sleep 5 signalProcess sigTERM p r <- getProcessStatus True False p print r run x args = forkProcess $ executeFile x True args Nothing ? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe