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Since you're on windows, if you use system(1,$cmd) I think that'll spawn it off.

On unix, you'd have to fork and exec instead.

You just have to wait for them to finish if you're going to read files they create.

Personally, I use AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd to spawn subprocesses, monitor their outputs and return code, and manage all of that. But that's a lot more than you're asking for.

In reply to Re: Multiple system commands in parallel by Tanktalus
in thread Multiple system commands in parallel by g_speran

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