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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I launch a command on an existing terminal in unix using PERL Post 302483345 by AnuragJindal on Sunday 26th of December 2010 09:58:05 AM
Old 12-26-2010
How do I launch a command on an existing terminal in unix using PERL
Hello,

I have a PERL-TK based GUI from which I want to launch a command on an existing UNIX terminal (this is also the parent terminal for this perl based gui window). The command I want to launch is interactive (there is no intention to interact with that command from the same PERL gui i.e. no further interaction between the two processes).
I tried the following:
Option1: system("$command");
This launched the command on the parent terminal but the $command got suspended in-between because it is interactive.

Option2: system("gnome-terminal -x sh -c $command");
This launched the command in interactive mode on a "new" terminal. The problem in this case is that the terminal gets killed once the command execution completes.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Anurag
 

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IVMAN-LAUNCH(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   IVMAN-LAUNCH(8)

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SYNOPSIS

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