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in thread Run a shell command in a new terminal from a perl script?

I am running this script on Ubuntu

The script I am writing pulls a few command line programs together. I want to be able to have one of the programs run in a new terminal while my main program continues to run in the first terminal.

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Re^3: Run a shell command in a new terminal from a perl script?
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Feb 01, 2012 at 01:37 UTC
    It can be done, but it's tricky. Here's a script that I wrote to test Module::Install and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

$|=1;

open STDOUT, '>-';
system("xterm -e cpan -ft Module::Install &");
close STDOUT; 

use CPAN;
CPAN::Shell->test("ExtUtils::MakeMaker");

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    Update: The script requires a lot of RAM, so it may or may not work for you. Try some other commands until it works.

    Update: This will probably work better for you. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

$| =1;

open STDOUT, '>-';
system("du /usr/lib/perl5 &");
close STDOUT;

open STDOUT, '>-';
system("xterm -e du /usr/lib/perl5 &");
close STDOUT;

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      That did not work.

      I got an error saying: sh: xterm: command not found

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        You need to install xterm. 
        sudo apt-get install xterm

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        Or get the source:

        xterm
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