Re: perl opening a new command line window

[Anonymous Monk]

how about a pipe?

#!/usr/bin/perl

system 'mknod thepipe p' unless -p 'thepipe';

if ( fork ) {
        system q(xterm -e 'exec < thepipe; cat');
} else {
        open F, '>thepipe';
        select F;
        $|++;
        for (1..30) {
                print "and a $_ woot!\n";
                sleep 1;
        }
}
unlink 'thepipe';

[wazoox]

depending upon your OS (Linux, Solaris, IRIX ...), you may use mkfifo instead of mknod ... p.
Keep in mind that fifos may lock, or exit quite easily (the reader can't read anymore after the writer stops). however it'll save some disk space :)
BTW, would it be possible to create an anonymous pipe (on the IO::File model perhaps?)