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Old 03-23-2009
chengamsiva chengamsiva is offline
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Hi,
Now Replace

your line :user_prog_name=$(echo ${line} | awk '{print $3}')
by :user_prog_name=$(echo ${line} | awk '{for (a = 3; a <= NF; a++) print $a }')