Originally Posted by sfaizan

pealse read my first post. I want to change the data file created by a sofware to the simple one. by removing the left side of '=' and keeping the right side. one line per record to a new datafile. All are text files. I am using awk in bash with sed to remove the '=' and left side. but output in screen is ok, but in bash script if i try to use '>> newfilename' it adds '\' (back slash) at the end of each comma seperated field. I dont know may be its blank or empty space which is shown as '\' or something else.