Re: [Haskell-cafe] open a browser from the command line, wait a few seconds, and shut it. (ie, translate forking from bash to haskell)

tphyahoo:

I have a bash script that opens a browser for a few seconds, and then closes it.

Could someone point me up the equivelant(s) in haskell, h4sh, hsh, etc,0 and friends?

I reckon this amounts to, what's the process for translating forking from bash to haskell.

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#!/bin/bash konqueror http://www.google.com & pid=$! # give the page some time to load sleep 5 kill $pid

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Something like: import System.Posix main = do p <- run "xclock" [] sleep 5 signalProcess sigTERM p r <- getProcessStatus True False p print r run x args = forkProcess $ executeFile x True args Nothing ? -- Don