How to read output from a background task in anon-blocking way?...

> This is the sort of code to run and poll the task. Creating the command
> line was messy as it was different for windows vs Linux - you shouldn't
> have that problem.

Thanks! That's a good starting point indeed.

> There are neater ways to copy output file to a variable.

I usually do:

use File::Slurp;
my $output = read_file($logfile);

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Michael