Hi, I have a script in which I'm getting the record count from header field and rowcount from wc -l. I'm matching header count with my rowcount. But, since the header count has zeros in the beginning, the match is not successful. Example: Header_count=00025 Row_count=25. Even though both the values are same, due to preceding zeroes, it results with no match. Is there a way to remove the preceding zeroes from this variable? Also, I want to add the Timestamp at the end of a variable in the script. How to add the timestamp? Ex. FileName=header_file_TIMESTAMP... I was timestamp in the place of TIMESTAMP in the above filename. Please guide me in accomplishing these. Thanks, Anil

1. remove the leading 0'S: HEADER_COUNT=`expr $Header_count + 0` 2. Timestamp: FileName=header_file_`date '+%y%m%d%H%M%S'` Luke Chi

If you compare variables with = (for string compares), then 00025 will not compare same as 25. But in this case you should be using -eq which is for numerical compares, in which case they will compare equal.

Thanks Luke and Jim. It worked.