Would that still be doable with the normal way you just explained?

Yes. But you're going to have to explain what output you get from this "omnidb" command; because I've never heard of it.

Would you mind showing a small example?

Given that your example code is incomplete, which leaves us none the wiser as to and how a whole bunch of global variables used by pullDataFromDbWithDirectory() -- eg. $itemCount, $maxNumberOfItems, $omnidb, $filesystem, $label, @data -- are initialised/used, it would require gobs of time and guesswork to try and construct a working example.

Post your full code.

Post a sample output from the command.

Explain what you are going to do with the list of files you are building in @data.

Then maybe we stand a chance of helping you.

BTW: Ignore/downvote both existing and any further replies you get from sundialsvc4. He has no working knowledge of using Perl's threading and has a history of posting long, rambling, always useless, often dangerous "suggestions".

He even knows this: " Clearly, none of my suggestions would apply to this particular case. ", but he continues to waste everyones time by posting these useless, over generic replies on subjects that he has been proven, time & time again, to have no first hand knowledge.

Why? I think the poor ol' thing is getting so senile that he genuinely forgets that he's only regurgitating things he's read rather than his own experiences. Sadly, whilst he seems to be able to retrieve odd snippets of generally good advice; he always seems to forget the correct context, rendering them useless.

Hi

The output of omnidb looks as folows

# omnidb -filesystem server:/SHARED  '/SHARED (test)'  -listdir '/SHAR
+ED/tmp/test'
Type Filename
======================================================================
+=========
File file9
File file8
File file7
File file6
File file5
File file4
File file3
File file2
File file1
Dir  dir9
Dir  dir8
Dir  dir7
Dir  dir6
Dir  dir5
Dir  dir4
Dir  dir3
Dir  dir2
Dir  dir1
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Explain what you are going to do with the list of files you are building in @data.

Right now I am just printing out the output. Nothing fancy.

Here the full code of my script. I am not really a perl programmer. Might not be developed the most efficient way.,?p>

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
BEGIN { our($_pathname,$_filename)=($0=~m#(.*)/([^/]+)$#)?($1,$2):("."
+,$0); push @INC,$_pathname; };
sub usage {
################################################################
#
# Title       : dpfilesearch.pl
#
# Autor           : Christian Sandrini
#
# Description :
print STDERR "\nERROR: $_[0]\nUsage:\n", <<"EndOfDescription";

     $_filename

         Required Parameters:
                --filesystem 'host:dir'         Filesystem with format
+ host:fs
                                                ex. host:/SHARED
                --label 'label'                 Label
                --dir 'directory'               Directory to search

         Optional Parameters:
                --recursive                     Recursive search
                --maxCount 10000        Maximum allowed item count
                --threads 10            Maximul parallel jobs
                --exclude dir           Can be specified muliple times
EndOfDescription
exit 2
}

# -------------------------
# Required libraries
# -------------------------
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long;
use Term::ANSIColor;
use threads;
use Thread::Queue;

# -------------------------
# Global Variables
# -------------------------
my $omnidb = '/opt/omni/bin/omnidb';
my @data :shared;
my $maxNumberOfParallelJobs = 10;
my $maxNumberOfItems = 10000;
my $itemCount = 0;
my $worker = Thread::Queue->new();
my @IDLE_THREADS :shared;

# -------------------------
# Argument handling
# -------------------------
my( $filesystem, $label, $directory, $recursive, $debug, @exclude );
Getopt::Long::Configure("pass_through");
GetOptions(
                q{filesystem=s} => \$filesystem,
                q{label=s} => \$label,
                q{dir=s} => \$directory,
                q{recursive!} => \$recursive,
                                q{maxCount=i} => \$maxNumberOfItems,
                                q{threads=i} => \$maxNumberOfParallelJ
+obs,
                                q{debug!} => \$debug,
                                q{exclude=s} => \@exclude
);

usage "Invalid argument(s)." if (grep {/^-/o } @ARGV);

my( @args ) = @ARGV;
if ( !($filesystem || $label || $directory) ) {
        usage "Not enough arguments." if (! @args );
}

# -------------------------
# Methods
# -------------------------
sub pullDataFromDbWithDirectory {
        my $_dir = $_[0];

        if ($itemCount <= $maxNumberOfItems) {
                my @retval = grep { /^Dir|^File/ } qx($omnidb -filesys
+tem $filesystem  '$label'  -listdir '$_dir');

                foreach my $item (@retval) {
                        $itemCount++;
                        (my $filename = $item) =~ s/^File\s+|^Dir\s+|\
+n//g;
                        my $file = "$_dir/$filename";

                        if (!($file ~~ @exclude)) {
                                push(@data,$file);

                                if ($item =~ /^Dir/) {
                                        $worker->enqueue($file);
                                        print "Add $file to queue\n" i
+f $debug;
                                }
                        }
                }
        }
}

sub doOperation () {
        my $ithread = threads->tid();

        do {
                my $folder = $worker->dequeue();
                print "Read $folder from queue with thread $ithread\n"
+ if $debug;
        pullDataFromDbWithDirectory($folder);
        } while ($worker->pending());

        push(@IDLE_THREADS,$ithread);
}

sub printData {
        foreach my $file (sort @data) {
                print "$file\n";
        }

        if ($itemCount > $maxNumberOfItems) {
                print colored ['red on_black'], "\nWARNING: Maximum it
+em count of $itemCount / $maxNumberOfItems has be                    
+                                          en reached. Please adjust y
+our filter\n";
        }
}

# -------------------------
# Main
# -------------------------
print "Exclude: " . Dumper(\@exclude) if $debug;
my @threads = map threads->create(\&doOperation), 1 .. $maxNumberOfPar
+allelJobs;
pullDataFromDbWithDirectory($directory);


sleep 0.01 while (scalar @IDLE_THREADS < $maxNumberOfParallelJobs);
$worker->enqueue((undef) x $maxNumberOfParallelJobs);
$_->join for @threads;

printData();
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Untested and without trying to understand the rest if your code, try the following minimal changes to your posted code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
BEGIN { 
    our($_pathname,$_filename) = 
    ( $0 =~ m[(.*)/([^/]+)$] ) ? ( $1, $2 ) : ( ".", $0 ); 
    push @INC,$_pathname; 
};

sub usage {
print STDERR "\nERROR: $_[0]\nUsage:\n", <<"EndOfDescription";

     $_filename

         Required Parameters:
                --filesystem 'host:dir'         Filesystem with format
+ host:fs
                                                ex. host:/SHARED
                --label 'label'                 Label
                --dir 'directory'               Directory to search

         Optional Parameters:
                --recursive                     Recursive search
                --maxCount 10000        Maximum allowed item count
                --threads 10            Maximul parallel jobs
                --exclude dir           Can be specified muliple times
EndOfDescription
exit 2
}

# -------------------------
# Required libraries
# -------------------------
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long;
use Term::ANSIColor;
use threads;
use Thread::Queue;

# -------------------------
# Global Variables
# -------------------------
my $omnidb = '/opt/omni/bin/omnidb';
my @data :shared;
my $maxNumberOfParallelJobs = 10;
my $maxNumberOfItems = 10000;
my $itemCount = 0;
my $worker = Thread::Queue->new();
my @IDLE_THREADS :shared;

# -------------------------
# Argument handling
# -------------------------
my( $filesystem, $label, $directory, $recursive, $debug, @exclude );
Getopt::Long::Configure("pass_through");
GetOptions(
    q{filesystem=s} => \$filesystem,
    q{label=s} => \$label,
    q{dir=s} => \$directory,
    q{recursive!} => \$recursive,
    q{maxCount=i} => \$maxNumberOfItems,
    q{threads=i} => \$maxNumberOfParallelJobs,
    q{debug!} => \$debug,
    q{exclude=s} => \@exclude
);

usage "Invalid argument(s)." if (grep {/^-/o } @ARGV);

my( @args ) = @ARGV;
if ( !($filesystem || $label || $directory) ) {
        usage "Not enough arguments." if (! @args );
}

sub pullDataFromDbWithDirectory {
    my $_dir = $_[0];

    if ($itemCount <= $maxNumberOfItems) {
        my @retval = grep { /^Dir|^File/ } qx($omnidb -filesystem $fil
+esystem  '$label'  -listdir '$_dir');

        foreach my $item (@retval) {
            $itemCount++;
            (my $filename = $item) =~ s/^File\s+|^Dir\s+|\n//g;
            my $file = "$_dir/$filename";

            if (!($file ~~ @exclude)) {
                push(@data,$file);

                if ($item =~ /^Dir/) {
                    $worker->enqueue( $file );
                    print "Add $file to queue\n" if $debug;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

sub doOperation () {
    my $ithread = threads->tid();

    while( my $folder = $worker->dequeue() ) {
        print "Read $folder from queue with thread $ithread\n" if $deb
+ug;
        pullDataFromDbWithDirectory($folder);
    };
}

sub printData {
    foreach my $file (sort @data) {
        print "$file\n";
    }

    if ($itemCount > $maxNumberOfItems) {
        print colored ['red on_black'], "\nWARNING: Maximum item count
+ of $itemCount / $maxNumberOfItems has been reached. Please adjust yo
+ur filter\n";
    }
}

# -------------------------
# Main
# -------------------------
print "Exclude: " . Dumper( \@exclude ) if $debug;
my @threads = map{ 
    threads->create( \&doOperation ) 
} 1 .. $maxNumberOfParallelJobs;

pullDataFromDbWithDirectory( $directory );

$worker->enqueue( (undef) x $maxNumberOfParallelJobs );
$_->join for @threads;

printData();
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