Hi, blackadder - love that name, and yes, I'm a Rowan Atkinson fan, but I did not care much for his recent movie "Johnny English" - anyway - that is completely OT.

Back in the real world, It seems that you have re-invented the "diruse" program that comes with the Win2k resource kit.

To test if it is worth converting to multi-tasking, you could run multiple copies of your program, or multiple copies of "diruse", and see if it takes less total time than running serially.

Here is a small program to get you started on multi-threading.

This works on perl 5.8, and uses the Threads module. 
use strict;
use threads;

my @MyThread;
my $threadcount = 15;

for (0..($threadcount-1)){
  $MyThread[$_]=threads->new(\&s,$_,10+$_);
};

if ($ARGV[0] eq 'a'){
  foreach (@MyThread){
    print qq(Return check via thread array from ) . $_->join() . qq(\n
+);
  }
}else{
  foreach (threads->list()){
    print qq(Return check via threads list from ) . $_->join() . qq(\n
+);
  }
}
#######################
sub s{
 my $a=shift;
 sleep($threadcount-$a);
 print qq(In sub s param=$a\n);
 return shift()
}

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In reply to Re: Getting a script to do 2 process simultaneously. by NetWallah
in thread Getting a script to do 2 process simultaneously. by blackadder

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