title: shell_exec without waiting for the output
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/222414/asynchronous-shell-exec-in-php">Asynchronous shell exec in PHP</a><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019867/is-there-a-way-to-use-shell-exec-without-waiting-for-the-command-to-complete">Is there a way to use shell_exec without waiting for the command to complete?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I want to run a quite slow / complex program which takes at least 10 minutes to complete. I want to call this via shell_exec or something similar, but I dont want the php script to wait for the completion of this program.</p>
  
  <p>is thing something I can do? and if so how can I do that?</p>