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+# Do it the blocking way
+system 'sleep 5'
+
+# Do it the non-blocking way
+Process.spawn 'sleep 5'
+
+# Do it the blocking way with Process.spawn
+# Notice that it returns the pid of the child process
+pid = Process.spawn 'sleep 5'
+Process.waitpid(pid)
+