this is what i wanted to do. i have a master script which need to do some processing of data and once it gets the proper information figured out, it need to launch another script which will log onto another machine and pull some data. Problem is that that script needs to run twice and in order to save time, i like to launch that script twice.. Now that i think about this for little bit perhaps i can do something like 
== master script ==
doprocessing();
system("launchexternalscript");
gatherinfofromthoseinfo();

== externalscript ==
fork();
system("gotootherserverandgetinfo");

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does this work?

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