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The "1," is special. See perlport
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Re^4: Parallel downloading under Win32?
by Xenofur (Monk) on Apr 29, 2009 at 12:33 UTC
    I'm amazed that that kind of information is not in the description of the command itself. Anyhow, that being a Win32-specific thing means it's useless for me, as i don't want to lose Linux compatibility.
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      Officially, it's an internal call you're suppose to access through modules such as IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3, both of which are documented and portable.

      But yeah, nothing about "1," makes any sense potato.

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        Thank you!

        I had no idea something like that exists.

        After reading up on IPC::Open2, this works perfectly: 
            use IPC::Open2;

    for my $id  (@ids) {
        $wgets++;
        
        push @pids, open2(undef, undef, 'wget', $url.$id, '-q', '-O', 
+$dir.$id);
        
        while ( @pids >= 10 ) {
            waitpid( shift @pids, 0 );
        }
    }

    while ( @pids ) {
        waitpid( shift @pids, 0 );
    }

        [download]
        And as far as i can tell, it'll be completely cross-platform-compatible, as long as i provide wget.exe. :)
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