Thanks a lot for your efforts and time.

Rather i tried with the printf arguments earlier but rather did not workout.

I re-directed the output of the command to file and when i opened the file i could not see any spaces,even with se list option.

recs=`wc -l PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS|cut -c1-9`;export recs;echo 'PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS'`date +%Y%m%d``printf '%015d%-200s\n' $recs`


Output:
PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS20080128000000000000101$

Where $ representing the end of line.

Can you provide me some more suggestions