Hi Satya, On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:18:14 +0000 "Nemana, Satya" <snem...@sonusnet.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I am having a slight difficulty in getting this accomplished. > When my perl program keeps running, I sometimes need to pause the screen > output and check some things on the output. But, I want my program to still > keep running while I pause the screen. (using ctrl+s on putty) But the > program also is pausing.(I tested this with a simple program which prints > number from 1-100 sleeping 1 second after each print , but the main program I > am trying to get this working is much complex, so will try things here first > before modifying the original program) > > Test Code : > > use strict; > use warnings; > for (my $i=1; $i <= 200; $i++) > { > print "\ni is $i"; > sleep 1; > } > > Please, could someone throw some light on which areas of perl to look at for > this. I am not looking for a program, but specific areas where I have to do > the reading. I will come back with the program once I can make out what to do > for any suggestions. > Some thoughts: 1. You can try using a terminal multiplexer such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen . 2. You can try running the program in the background - as a daemon. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ Bugs are too afraid to reproduce on Chuck Norris’ computer. As a result, when he uses Microsoft Windows, it behaves just like a Linux system. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/