Hi . Im a DBA i dont much knowledge about shell scripting can anybody help me out in my requirement . i have output file like below : <SID> dif0 online backup at 200903100758. Exit code: 0. If the output file returns exit code 0 then its success if not failled My requirement is to display the backup status with backup date <Mar 10 2009> Something like below if exit code 0 it should return Mar 10 2009 Backup success else Mar 10 2009 backup failled My try on the requirement : j=0. i=`more <logname>|grep dif*|tail -01 |awk ' { print $9 }'` if [ $i=$j ] then print "Backup success" else print "Backup failled" fi This gives me backup success or failure but without date . im not able to interpret the date in to <month date year> bec the date in the log contains time of completion . Can anybody HELP me .