Re: I need to run and release a program in the background

[ToddAndMargo via perl6-users]

On 2020-11-16 15:50, Andy Bach wrote:

> this command runs OUTSIDE the shell.  There are no  environmental variables to be found such as $HOME

Well, not exactly none, but a limited env

$ raku -e 'my $pA = Proc::Async.new( "env" ); $pA.start;'

...

Hi Andy,

Limited indeed!  I get around it with:

my Str $Leafpadrc = $*HOME ~ "/" ~ ".config/leafpad/leafpadrc";


:-)

-T