Re^5: Parallel downloading under Win32?

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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Re^6: Parallel downloading under Win32? by Xenofur (Monk) on Apr 29, 2009 at 13:24 UTC
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. :)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^6: Parallel downloading under Win32?
by Xenofur (Monk) on Apr 29, 2009 at 13:24 UTC

    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 );
    }
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