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g_speran has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Perl Monks,
I am looking for a way to launch multiple system commands in parallel. I do not want to wait for the command to finish, I am not interested in the child pid, nor the child output.

When I launch the code below, the scripts waits for the command to finish and then proceeds.

I have looked in perls system and exec. But neither of these provide the functionality I need.

Any thoughts?

$NSRHOLD="c:/temp/hold/"; @files=List_Hold(); $MAXCNT=15; for ($x=0; $x < scalar(@files); $x++ ) { $file=@files[$x]; chomp $file; $cmd="clone -F $file "; print "Launching Command is: $cmd\n"; system($cmd); } sub List_Hold { my $dir = "$NSRHOLD" . "*"; my @files = <"$dir">; return @files; }