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If you would like to keep everything is a shell context and avoid the outside use of cut to enhance performance you can do it this way in bash ksh zsh and newer sh(posix) shells: #!/bin/bash parse() { count=0 var_in=$1 IFS='~' for value in $var_in do arrayval[$count]=$value ((count =...

Here is a simple script to get you started on your way to doing what you want. This works in ksh sh bash and zsh # start script while read line do if echo $line | grep "^[0-9]" > /dev/null then fout=`echo $line | awk ' {print $1} '` fileout=acct_${fout} fi echo...

Whitestar software is owned by "John Campbell" in Palo Alto, Ca. Here is the link. http://www.wss.com/ John's books on progress are considered the "bibles" for progress. Check out his articles on his website too. Don't hesitate to send John an email if you have...