Hi, I am pasting the contents of the file below. I will get similar occurances more than 50 times in one file. I need to search for the string "End the test" and then print 11th or 12th line before this line (the one with timestamps). Please test your code & send it to me. Thx in advance Timestamp: Wed Jul 18 04:04:23 PM EDT 2007 Starting Traffic for 20 seconds... Frame Size: 100 2/3 -> TX Frames: 1132112 2/3 -> RX Frames: 1132112 2/3 -> RX Min Latency: 314.02 usec 2/3 -> RX Max Latency: 44480.08 usec 2/3 -> RX AVG Latency: 6103.62 usec 2/3 -> 2/3 Loss: 0 2/3 -> 2/3 Loss Ratio %: 0.000000000 End the test, we are at max rate: 5.133056640625 Frame Sizes (bytes): 100 Rate (%): 5.13 Avg Latency (usec): 6103.62 Min Latency (usec): 314.02 Max Latency (usec): 44480.08 Vinod

You should really post this in the linux/UNIX forum.

Didn't we go through this already? http://computing.net/programming/ww... ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2