Hi, you didn't supply sample input or output, or describe what the external program does, so the following is untested, but here's something to try using MCE. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use MCE::Loop;
use Capture::Tiny 'capture_stdout';
use Text::CSV 'csv';
use Try::Tiny;
use JSON;

MCE::Loop::init { max_workers => 8, use_slurpio => 1 };

my $data_filename = 'all.txt';
my $fail_filename = 'failed.tsv';

my $cmd = 'cfn_nag_scan';
my @args = qw/ -o json --input-path /;

my @results = mce_loop_f {
    my ($mce, $slurp_ref, $chunk_id) = @_;
    my @failures;
    while ( $$slurp_ref =~ /([^\n]+\n)/mg ) {
        my $line = $1;
        my $json = try {
             return decode_json(capture_stdout { system($cmd, @args, $
+line) });
        }
        catch {
            warn "processing $line failed: $_";
            return;
        };

        next unless $json;

        my $failure_count = $json->{file_results}{failure_count};
        push @failures, [ $json->{filename} => $failure_count ] if $fa
+ilure_count;
    }
 
    # Gather results 
    MCE->gather(@failures); 
} $data_filename;

unshift @results, [qw/ Filename Failures /];
csv (in => \@results, out => $fail_filename, sep_char=> "\t");

__END__

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update: added json decoding and exception handling; changed return to next (thx marioroy)

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Using Parallel::ForkManager on multiple files using backtick operators for multiple files being processed simulnaneously by 1nickt
in thread Using Parallel::ForkManager on multiple files using backtick operators for multiple files being processed simulnaneously by symgryph

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