Glenn,

Cut command is not working properly as if i do this

cut -d" " -f1 tables.*


the o/p is coming like this:

acct STD
acct_chrg_off_actvt STD
acct_crdt_hist STD
acct_sgmnt_hist HST
acct_sts_hist HST
acct_upd STD
acct_upd2 STD

only the first field which is table name should come right. Please help.