Bkgnd process that returns immediately

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Hi Mark,

actually neither of those will do anything... you forgot to put in a 
command between start and the '>' redirect command...


for example:
(diruse gets you the size of a folder for example)

get shell("diruse /m" && thisshare & "findstr /i sub-total")  -- retrieves 
the size of a share on a server which can take lots of time!

works but blocks ya waiting for an answer...

so what you should do is 

put "diruse /m,* \\buffet\mysharename > 
\\buffet\spacelogs$\diruse\bufduser20061127.log" into mycommand
get  "start cmd /c"  && quote & mycommand & quote
get shell(it) 

this will do what you want!

as simple and stupid as you think DOS can be, there's always more to learn 
and remember which may not always be so intuitive!!

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 16/03/2007 16:52:36:

> > Xavier wrote:
> > I just dont use the ampersand and it works like a charm...
> 
> Which one of the literal examples works for you?
> 
>   get shell("start > C:\blah.html")
>   get shell("start > C:\shellTemp.txt")
> 
> If the second, then what is in the targeted file?
> 
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