I've never used fork but I read about it a few times in the past because I always knew I'd run into something where I'd like to use it.

My PC is running on windows but my web host is unix, I'm hoping theirs a method I can kill both birds with a single stone.

Taking this very cutdown script, can someone show me a very simple fix to add fork() to this? Everything inside the loop is what I'd aim for, to make the page crawling a multi-process.

I do know this isn't good for the server, but in the end I'm not going to use this script for anything except learning how to fork. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $site = "http://ftw.generation.no/?n=";

my $cnt = 0;

use LWP::Simple;

for (1 .. 4000)
{
   $cnt++;
   my $page = get("$site$cnt");

   $page =~ m#src="img/(.+)"\s+alt#;
   getstore("http://ftw.generation.no/img/$1", $1);
   print "$1 saved-- $cnt/2584\n";
}

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