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Traditionally, one uses fork, or threads.

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Re: Re: Creation of simultaneous system commands
by kesterkester (Hermit) on Feb 26, 2004 at 17:23 UTC
    For example: 
    foreach ( @your_jobs ) {
    if ( $pid ) { # parent
        ; # do nothing
    }
    elsif ( defined $pid ) {   # child
        # do something with $_ here, and then exit:
        exit;
    }
    else {
        die "fork failure $!";
    }
}

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    I've just started learning about forking, but this seems to be the general way to do it.

    update: oop, that should've been foreach instead of while

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      And if your jobs are external programs to be run: 
      fork // die || exec  $_ for @jobs;

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      If they are subs to be called: 

      fork // die || exit &$_ for @jobs;

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      Abigail

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