Hi All, I need to write a script to find from dept1 to 45 = no. How do I go about doing this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. camin

Perhaps you want something like this? #!/bin/ksh Counter=1 while [[ $Counter -le 45 ]] do find / -group dept$Counter -print (( Counter += 1 )) done

Thanks a bunch Jerry I will try that right now.. camin

Hi Jerry, I am having a problem, your solution is OK, but maybe I did not explain correctly what I want to do: There are 27 fields in the db, and for the 27 fields the label is lets say dept1 to 27 and the value for each could be AA BB CC, but I need to go thru all 27 to get CC value and pipe the results into a file.... can you help? thanks camin

I don't understand what you mean by "There are 27 fields in the db". What db? What is a field?

Hi William, What I mean is that db is the database, this is like a database for bug tracking program, all defects are entered into here, and so on. So on one form there are these 27 fields that could have the value of 3 possibilities, AA, BB, or CC. Is this clear now...the counter could probably work.....I will try that again....