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Hi, thanks for useful suggestion I also need to call program D, but not untill both B and C have been executed. Please guide.
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Re^3: How to call two programs simultaneously from a running program
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 19, 2008 at 08:28 UTC 

    use threads;
use threads::shared;
...
my $Bresults:shared;
async {
    $Bresults = `perl B.pl`;
}->detach;

my $Cresults = `perl C.pl`;

sleep 1 until defined $Bresults;

my $Dresults = `perl D.pl $Bresults $Cresults`;

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