Re: Running a Background Job

[andyford]

in reply to Running a Background Job

top won't run from the commandline with &, so it's not surprising that perl can't do it either.

Are you trying to gather system statistics? If you really want to use top, have you tried top's batch mode (-b option)?

[perlfan]

Update: sorry, I thought you were saying 'perl' couldn't run in the background - didn't catch the issue with 'top' until after :-/

What?! This is absolutely false. 'perl' can certainly run in the background!

# perl -e 'print "hello\n"' > test.out 2>&1

#cat test.out
hello