RE: OT:UNIX: Anyway to run this in the background and return to ca

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:04:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CC468.20030822100427@fatcity.com>

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use bytes;
my $pid=0;
if (!defined ($pid=fork())) { die "Problem with cutlery:$!\n"} elsif ($pid) { print "Do stuff here\n";

               waitpid($pid,0);
               print "Cutlery is back\n";
             }
else {
         open(SPY,"ps -ef|grep sqlplus|");
         while (<SPY>) {    print;}
       }

 

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA

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Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:25 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus "/ as sysdba" << EOD select ......
exit
EOD
echo "this is a test"
ps -ef|grep sqlplus

I wish to put that into a unix command but at the same time run it in the background and return back to the parent script to do some other stuff?

Anyone done this?

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