Hi, I have a file report.txt which has the contents as: SheetName|RecordName|FieldName|TableName|ColumnName|Change Summary||2||No specification received for output file record|MODIFIED Central Checks|R3002SPLDXVOLUME|F3002-VOL1-VOL-SRL-NUM|SUBMISSION|SERIAL_NUM|DEL ETED Suspense data|RC3310SUSPMIGXDATA||||ADDED Suspense data|RC3310SUSPMIGXDATA|FC3310-RECORD-TYPE|||ADDED and my unix code is: #!/bin/ksh set -x cat report1.txt | while read LINE do recordname=`echo $LINE | awk -F"|" '{print $2}'` change=`echo $LINE | awk -F"|" '{print $6}'` if test ! "$recordname" || test "$change" = "ERROR" then echo "something" fi done set +x I am checking whether recordname field is empty or change field contains string "ERROR". But it is giving error. Tell me the reason Roopa.A

cat report.txt | while read LINE do recordname=`echo $LINE | awk -F"|" '{print $2}'` change=`echo $LINE | awk -F"|" '{print $6}'` if [ -z "$recordname" ] || [ "$change" = "ERROR" ]; then echo "recordname is empty or change is ERROR" fi done Luke Chi

Hi, Still its not taking the value of change read LINE cat report1.txt + awk -F| {print $2} echo SheetName|RecordName|FieldName|TableName|ColumnName|Change recordname=RecordName + awk -F| {print $6} echo SheetName|RecordName|FieldName|TableName|ColumnName|Change change=Change err=ERROR [ -z RecordName ] = ERROR ] See in this last line its checking correctly for recordname but it is not doing for change.Please tell me why its not taking change field value. Thanks Roopa.A

Now my code is working I am using case statement instead of if statement. Roopa.A