How can I run Perl system commands in the background?
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#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use 5.012; use IPC::System::Simple qw(system);
system( 'xterm', '-geometry', '80x25-5-5', '-bg', 'green', '&' );
say "Hello";
say "World";
I tried this to run the xterm-command in the background, but it doesn't work:
No absolute path found for shell: &
What would be the right way to make it work?
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