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Or, may be a bit more flexible:FN=/usr/local/data/sales/taxware/indata/stepprod
echo ${FN##*/} $( wc -l < $FN )

No need to use cat:
echo "stepprod $( wc -l < file )"

This is an other way to do it:
echo stepprod `cat your_file |wc -l`

cat /usr/local/data/sales/taxware/indata/stepprod |wc -l | xargs echo stepprod

If you want the column names as headers, grep for sth. that will certainly be in the header, like UID:ps -ef |grep -E "UID|cly"
If that does not satisfy your needs, Don Cragun posted possible...

Your request is ambiguous. If you include the following line of code in your shell script and you pass the part of the ID you want to match as the 1st argument to that script, the following prints...

To fetch the first column:
ps -ef | grep cly | awk '{print $1}'