Thanks for the post Tree,

allrighty, the end goal is is to create policies in netbackup, I'm going to be creating a LOT of policies very soon to where a script will make life easier.

Below is what I have as it's been edited repeatedly (so there's lots of stuff I commented out rather than delete until I figure out what works, possibly not considered the best method of hammering things out) All the commands are just echo'd right now as I don't want it to do anything until I'm sure it's submitting correct information.

The stuff in the while statement is what needs to happen for each line. Since which line needs to be read from the file advances with each pass I can't hard code an awk '[NR|FNR]==X' and putting a $PASSNO in place of 'X' didn't seem to work.

$ cat RMAN_policy.sh
#! /bin/ksh
#
# set command line variables
#
PATH=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/support:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/goodies:/opt/VRTSvxfs/sbin:$PATH
#USAGE="USAGE: RMAN_policy.sh <filename> "


#shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`

#INSTANCE=$1
#SERVER=$2
#PRIORITY=$3
#VPOOL=$4
#BPATH=$5
#OSV=$6

#PASSES=`wc -l $1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
#PASSNO=0

function while_read_LINE
{
cat $1 | while read LINE
do

echo "$LINE"

INSTANCE=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{ print $1 }'`
SERVER=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{ print $2 }'`
PRIORITY=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{ print $3 }'`
VPOOL=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{ print $4 }'`
BPATH=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{ print $5 }'`
OSV=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{ print $6 }'`

echo "$INSTANCE"
echo "$SERVER"
echo "$PRIORITY"
echo "$VPOOL"
echo "$BPATH"
echo "$OSV"

echo bppolicynew ora_"$INSTANCE"
echo bpplinfo ora_"$INSTANCE" -set -ut -active -blkincr 0 -collect_tir_info 0 -compress 0 -crossmp 1 -disaster 0 -encrypt 0 -follownfs 0 -multiple_streams 1 -policyjobs 0 -pool "$VPOOL" -priority "$PRIORITY" -pt Standard -residence foo -chkpt 1 -chkpt_intrvl 30
echo bpplsched ora_"$INSTANCE" -add Full
echo bpplschedrep ora_"$INSTANCE" Full -cal 0 -freq 86400 -mpxmax 1 -rl 5 -st FULL
echo bpplinclude ora_"$INSTANCE" -add "$BPATH"/*
echo bpplclients ora_"$INSTANCE" -add "$SERVER" Solaris "$OSV"

#PASSNO=`expr $PASSNO + 1`

#echo END PASS "$PASSNO"

#INSTANCE=$INSTANCE; shift 6
#SERVER=$SERVER; shift 6
#PRIORITY=$PRIORITY; shift 6
#VPOOL=$VPOOL; shift 6
#BPATH=$BPATH; shift 6
#OSV=$OSV; shift 6
done
}
$