Sorry - Rubbish title but I couldn't think of a better one.

I have a script which takes a list of machines on a network and distributes Anti-Virus updates to them. It works but it's very slow. Is there a way I can 'start' the process of updating a client (copy a package and execute it through OS commands) but not have the scripts sit there until it's finished before it caries on and starts the next one?

I've looked at exec but I don't think that's what I need. I tried looking at forking and I couldn't understand enough to work out if it was the answer or not.

Can anyone give me a pointer?
I've got Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook so feel free to direct me to a section in those.
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't write a good enough search to find anything useful.

In reply to How to make my script to more than one thing at once? by 2mths

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