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in thread Synchronous action

Maybe I used wrong terminology. Not to make it complicated, I just wanted all robocopy to be started at teh same time from one source to multilple machines. PARALLEL. It saves time. If done in SERIAL, it takes a long time for the robocopy to finish. I shall research on FORK, meanwhile, I hope you get my idea, what am trying to do and using "synchronization" might have confused you all. oops.

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Re^3: Synchronous action
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 12, 2011 at 19:04 UTC

    All you need is:

    for my $client ( @clients ) {
    ## Note: the '1' first parameter to system
    ## which means that the command will be executed asynchronously
    system 1, qq[ robocopy $srcmachine $client ]; 
}

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      Can you explain what this does? Instead of calling robocopy at the same line, I would like to copy a function with two arguments, src and dest. meaning like this. 
      system 1, &startCopy( $srcMachine $client->[0]);

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      But (in eclipse), its giving me a syntax error. Any suggestions on this?
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        Can you explain what this does?

        Did you try looking up what the system function does?

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