Hi All, Could somone suggest the solution for this problem? The problem is that I have a abc.txt file in following format. Requiremnt is to: 1) get rid of top(first)line from file. 2) remove the extra white space from beginning of each line in file. 3) Remove the white space after word 'status' and before 'time' is displayed. Here's how current file looks like: NameTestsErrorsFailuresTime(s) testLoginInitialLoad Success 7.938 testFailedSignOn Success 7.156 testLoginSignOn Success 8.078 testHomeTabNone Success 16.469 ================================== expected output should be : testLoginInitialLoad Success 7.938 testFailedSignOn Success 7.156 testLoginSignOn Success 8.078 testHomeTabNone Success 16.469 ================================== You may not see the space in inmessage I posted but assume that there's space at beginning of each line and extra space after status.

Look at Eric Pement's sed one-liners. I think he answers all of your questions: http://www.student.northpark.edu/pe...

1) get rid of top(first)line from file: tail +2 input_file 2) remove the extra white space from beginning of each line in file: sed 's/^ //' input_file 3) Remove the white space after word 'status' and before 'time' is displayed. sed 's/status /status/' input_file Informix/4GL