StartProcess

StartProcess["executable"] executes an external program, yielding a ProcessObject to represent the resulting subprocess.

StartProcess[{"executable", arg1, arg2, ...}] executes an external program, passing it the specified arguments.

Examples

Start a process:

proc = StartProcess[{"sleep", "5"}]
(* ProcessObject[...] *)

Check process status:

ProcessStatus[proc]
(* "Running" or "Finished" *)

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