$ perl www_whacker.pl --start 200000 --limit 100000 >out1 & $ perl www_whacker.pl --start 300000 --limit 100000 >out2 & $ perl www_whacker.pl --start 400000 --limit 100000 >out3 & $ # wait for all jobs to complete, then you can join all $ # the results together: $ cat out1 out2 out3 >output