Re: How to call two programs simultaneously from a running program

Take a look at fork.

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Re^2: How to call two programs simultaneously from a running program by repellent (Priest) on Aug 11, 2008 at 05:40 UTC
After forking, we still have to wait/waitpid for the child process to end in order to avoid zombies, unless we employ the double-fork technique. Instead, try this: `system "perl B.pl &"; system "perl C.pl &"` Reference: How do I start a process in the background?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to call two programs simultaneously from a running program by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 11, 2008 at 21:17 UTC
fork is a somewhat cross platform. `system "... &"` is rather system dependent. There is no telling what the OP is using of course and there is a fair chance that using & will do the trick for the OP. Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing	[reply] [d/l]