Is there any way to prevent that "fork"?

AFAIK, no. See exec, system, and qx.

i need to run many externals commands from my Perl script and capture both return-code and STDOUT. These commands must run under a shell...

Be aware of The problem of "the" default shell. I also wrote about running external commands here. In this case I'd suggest something like IPC::System::Simple (note it doesn't capture STDERR, for that I'd suggest a different module):

use IPC::System::Simple qw/capturex EXIT_ANY/;
my $out = capturex '/bin/bash', '-c', 'echo foo';

# or, if you don't want it to die on nonzero exit:
my $out2 = capturex EXIT_ANY, '/bin/bash', '-c', 'echo bar && false';

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i am looking for the "cheapest way" in terms of CPU and Memory load...

Without more information, this smells like premature optimization. What OS? What commands are you running; could they perhaps be replaced by Perl code? How many commands per second are you running? How fast do you need it to run, and have you written a prototype and measured its performance to see if it's good enough or not?

In reply to Re: Cheapest way for multiple external commands by haukex
in thread Cheapest way for multiple external commands by pedrete

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