Hi, Can you please let me know how to search records in a file which are greater than length 1000. Thanks, Anil

In ksh, ${#parameter} is the length of parameter: #!/bin/ksh while read line do if [[ ${#line} > 1000 ]] then echo ${line} fi done < myfile

Hi, The above code displays all the records in the file - even though their length is less than 1000. Do I have to specify anything in the place of # Thanks, Anil

I don't know what to tell you; it works for me just the way it is written. Are you sure you are using ksh. You can use the expr command to also get the length: #!/bin/ksh while read line do if [[ $(expr "${line}" : '.*') > 1000 ]] then echo ${line} fi done < myfile

The first solution works for me on HP-UX only if I use -gt or -ge. Also, you will want to set IFS to null to prevent echo from collapsing any amount of white space to single spaces - in other words, to preserve your line exactly as it is. #!/bin/ksh IFS= while read line do if [[ ${#line} -gt 9 ]] then echo ${line} fi done < myfile