[Perl-unix-users] Multiple Processes

[Barber, Brandon]

Folks,   I need some help with process forking on Solaris. What I'm trying to do is as follows:       I have 60+ directories which I need to copy. Each directory has a different destination and so it is impossible to do the copy with a single command i.e. I must have one copy statement per directory.       I'd also like to copy all 60+ directories simultaneously i.e. issue 60 commands at the same time.       The perl script must wait until all of the 60+ copies have been completed, before generating a log file containing the results.   Although it is fairly simple to launch the 60+ copy commands, how do I monitor each of the processes and know when each process has died.   A shell script which someone wrote (I'm trying to convert it into perl) does exactly that, but I can't work out how to do it in perl:   set FILERDIRPATH=/net/server/destination/ #This will create the 60+ copy processes foreach DIR ( * )  cd $DIR  cp -p -r backup $FILERDIRPATH/$DIR &  cd ..  echo "Copying $DIR to $FILERDIRPATH" >> $LOG end   # wait until all the cp jobs are done while 1  jobs > /tmp/jobs.$$  if (`wc -l /tmp/jobs.$$ | awk '{print $1}'` == "0" ) break end   rm /tmp/jobs.$$   Thanks, Bran.