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st: Execute shell command asynchronously?
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st: Execute shell command asynchronously?
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Tue, 22 May 2012 12:12:08 +0100
Under Unix, can Stata execute a shell command asynchronously?
The help hints not, but doesn't say so explicitly:
"Stata will wait for the shell to close or the
operating_system_command to complete before continuing."
This seems to say no, but in a sense the asychronous command completes
immediately leaving a sub-process to do the work.
Simply appending "&" at the end of the command started by -!- doesn't
seem to have an effect. nohup perhaps?
Brendan
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