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