hello everyone,

i am attempting to run the sleep function (i've also tried select) during the execution of a command to mimic a status. for example:

# this is a terminal screen
# here the process is executed
# below this a status is displayed while the command executes like so:
..................................................done

however, when i use sleep or select, they delay the command. how can i separate the two?

i have done this in shell scripts before using ps, grep, and awk; however, i'd like to pull this off in perl if possible...

here is what i have:

open CMD "$cmd |";
while(<CMD>) {
	print '.';
	# future code to log the output of CMD
	sleep 1;
	# select(undef, undef, undef, 0.5);
}