#! perl -slw use strict; use threads ( stack_size => 4096 ); use Thread::Queue; use LWP::Simple; my $Q = new Thread::Queue; sub worker { while( my $url = $Q->dequeue ) { chomp $url; ( my $file = $url ) =~ tr[/:?*"][_]; #" my $status = getstore $url, $file; $status == 200 or warn "$status : $url ($file)\n"; } } our $THREADS //= 4; $Q->enqueue( <>, (undef) x $THREADS ); $_->join for map threads->create( \&worker ), 1 .. $THREADS; ## use as thisScript -THREADS=8 < urls.list