#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use autodie qw/ system /; my $ensemblUrl = '......r='; ## rearrange like this my $start_range = 4953971; my $end_range = 5753970; my $range_increment = $end_range - $start_range; for my $times ( 0 .. 10 ){ my $range = $start_range.'-'.$end_range; my $rangefile = "$range.txt"; system qw/ wget -c /, '-O', $rangefile, $ensemblUrl.$range ; $start_range = $end_range ; $end_range = $start_range + $range_increment; }