I didn't check if this snippet is in the links above....lazy Sunday...but it's worth mentioning.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Proc::Queue size=>5, ':all';

my @script_names= qw(s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 somescript);

my @pids;
for my $s (@script_names) {
push @pids, system_back($s)
}

%results=waitpids(@pids);
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