Update: added pattern matching to the demonstration

If parallel reads is desired, the following demonstration does the same thing. Basically, specifying chunk_size => 1 is all one needs to do for getting MCE to run like Parallel::ForkManager.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use MCE::Loop;

my $dir = 'logs/*.log.gz';
my @files = sort(glob "$dir");
my $pattern = "some_string";

MCE::Loop::init {
    max_workers => 24,
    chunk_size  => 1,
};

mce_loop {
    my ( $mce, $chunk_ref, $chunk_id ) = @_;
    open( my $fh, "-|", "zcat", $chunk_ref->[0] ) or die "open error: 
+$!\n";

    while ( my $line = <$fh> ) {
        if ( $line =~ /$pattern/ ) {
            my @matches = $line =~ /".*?"|\S+/g;
            print "$matches[0],$matches[1],$matches[3],$matches[4]\n";
        }
    }

    close $fh;

} @files;
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Regards, Mario