bash - recursively append variable to result of curl -

i using curl , putting output file. following script prepends string mystring output:

#!/bin/bash  file=$1  ids=$(head ${file} | awk '{print $1}')  in ${ids}     curl -ss http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/$i.fasta -w "mystring" >> test1.txt done 

which fine , get:

$ ./myscript.sh mystring>q12345 mystring>p79403 mystring>q27595 

however when trying prepend variable doing:

#!/bin/bash  file=$1  ids=$(head ${file} | awk '{print $1}')  in ${ids}     curl -ss http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/$i.fasta -w "$ids" >> test1.txt done 

i get:

$ ./myscript.sh myvar1>q12345 myvar1 myvar1 myvar1 myvar2>p79403 myvar2 myvar2 myvar2 myvar3>q27595 myvar3 myvar3 myvar3 

so kind of works - it's adding lines. how should edit script?

curl -ss http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/$i.fasta -w "$ids" >> test1.txt 

should presumably be

curl -ss "http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/$i.fasta" -w "$i" >> test1.txt