Execute the Shell command and continue executing the algorithm

[Christian Köstlin]

On 2022-05-30 15:25, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 5/30/22 04:18, Alexander Zhirov wrote:
> 
>  > I want to run a command in the background
> 
> The closest is spawnShell:
> 
> import std.stdio;
> import std.process;
> import core.thread;
> 
> void main() {
>    auto pid = spawnShell(`(sleep 10000 & echo SLEEP >> log)`);
>    Thread.sleep(5.seconds);
>    kill(pid);
>    writeln("Terminated with ", wait(pid));
> }
> 
> I am not good at shell scripting but I had to change your && to & to see 
> anything in log.
I think this runs sleep 10000 in the background and emits the echo directly.

> As std.process documentation explains, the value returned by wait() (and 
> more) are platform dependent.
> 
> Ali
>