Re: Execute the Shell command and continue executing the algorithm

[Christian Köstlin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

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