Hi,

I am using AIX server. I have a korn shell script where in I am redirecting a line to a file in a while loop:

while read line
do
     outputline=$line;
     echo $outputline >> "./temp/exec_list_"$ETL_JOB_RUN"_temp"
done < ./temp/exec_list_$ETL_JOB_RUN

Is it possible that your "input" file contains metacharacters, which is being interpreted in you "echo" command...???

while read line
do
    print -- "$line" >> ./temp/exec_list_${ETL_JOB_RUN}_temp
done < ./temp/exec_list_${ETL_JOB_RUN}