Thank you for your post. I can tell you are really experienced with this stuff. Going back and reading my initial post I realized that I did not do a good job at explaining what my goal is. At least, I don't think so. So, let me explain myself in a better fashion.

I have three .ctl files:

A.ctl
B.ctl
C.ctl

In all of these .ctl files, I have, among other things, something called "BATCH". It looks like this: BATCH = 123-133. For each of these files I am grepping the "BATCH" value. Which is where my for loop comes to play.

grep 'BATCH" /somewhere/in/a/dir/${filename}.ctl | read a1 a2 BATCH

for filename in A B C
do
(executing another script which will use the "BATCH" to load some data)
done

This script will be running via kron scheduler. So let's say that for the A.ctl, everything went smoothly, but when it came to the B.ctl we got an error. We would like to re-run B.ctl, without going into the script and deleting A.ctl from the script and letting the for loop continue with B and C.

Is there a way where I can, from the command line pass the $filename parameter to this script so it can start the for loop from where I want it to?

THANKS!