Thank you for your reply, sundialsvc4.

Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm doing now.

start "01" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"A*/Z* 1^> 0
+1.csv 2^> 01.txt
start "02" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"B*/Z* 1^> 0
+2.csv 2^> 02.txt
start "03" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"C*/Z* 1^> 0
+3.csv 2^> 03.txt
start "04" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"D*/Z* 1^> 0
+4.csv 2^> 04.txt
start "05" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"E*/Z* 1^> 0
+5.csv 2^> 05.txt
start "06" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"F*/Z* 1^> 0
+6.csv 2^> 06.txt
start "07" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"G*/Z* 1^> 0
+7.csv 2^> 07.txt
start "08" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"H*/Z* 1^> 0
+8.csv 2^> 08.txt
start "09" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"I*/Z* 1^> 0
+9.csv 2^> 09.txt
start "10" cmd /c perl CountFilesRecords.pl "ABCD/foo bar/"J*/Z* 1^> 1
+0.csv 2^> 10.txt

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Blech!

It's precisely what I want to automate using Perl. It seems to me the best way to solve the problem is to add parallel processing of the folders and files inside the counting Perl script itself.

In reply to Re^2: Adding parallel processing to a working Perl script by Jim
in thread Adding parallel processing to a working Perl script by Jim

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