scratchpad demerphq <code> use Data::Consumer::Dir; use Getopt::Long; my ($db,$user,$name,$procs); Getoptions( 'db=s' => $db, 'user=s' => $user, 'name=s' => $name, 'procs=i' => $procs ) or die "Bad args"; my $pid= $$; fork while $procs-->0 and $pid==$$; my $feed= Data::Consumer::Dir->new( root => '/etc/drop/' ); my $DBH=DBI->connect($db,$user,$name) or die "..."; $feed->consume(sub { my ($f,$spec,$fh)= @_; while (<$fh>) { my @f=split/,/,$_; $dbh->do('insert into foo (date,height,width) values (?,?,?)',undef,@f); } }); </code>