Re: termination of system command


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Re: termination of system command

by tcf03 (Deacon)

on Feb 11, 2008 at 16:27 UTC ( #667411=note: print w/replies, xml )

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This does not answer your question directly, but why reinvent a wheel here? vmstat will stop itself using it like vmstat delay count. Using the following vmstat will stop collecting after 10 iterations at 10 second intervals.

@val = `vmstat 10 10`;
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update - system or IPC::Run3 may serve you better.

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