Hello Perl Monks,
I am looking for a way to launch multiple system commands in parallel. I do not want to wait for the command to finish, I am not interested in the child pid, nor the child output.

When I launch the code below, the scripts waits for the command to finish and then proceeds.

I have looked in perls system and exec. But neither of these provide the functionality I need.

Any thoughts? 

$NSRHOLD="c:/temp/hold/";
@files=List_Hold();
$MAXCNT=15;

for ($x=0; $x < scalar(@files); $x++ ) {
   $file=@files[$x];
   chomp $file;
   $cmd="clone -F $file ";
   print "Launching Command is: $cmd\n";
   system($cmd);
}

sub List_Hold {
    my $dir = "$NSRHOLD" . "*";
    my @files = <"$dir">;
    return @files;
}

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In reply to Multiple system commands in parallel by g_speran

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