I have a windows exe, which prints some output on windows console and keeps on running for infinite time.
I want to put this in a perl script in such a way that when this .exe is executed output for the same is displayed on screen in real time and also it should be stopped/killed after a fixed interval provided as user input.
I am able to open the command with:
$pid = open( $fileHandler, '-|', "$Command" );
where $Command has name of my EXE. Then I read $fileHandler and print the records.
But I am not able to stop this exe after a fixed interval of time. I tried using alarm, but it is of no use as alarm is not working in windows. Is there any way I can stop this exe after a specified interval?
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|