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for i in `grep $LINE $FILENAME | cut -d'|' -f2`
Try putting double quotes arnd $LINE

In your code,
echo "-----" "$LINE" "-----"
Remove the double quotes around $LINE. I think it should work.

#!/bin/ksh
FILENAME="$1"
grep a $FILENAME | while read LINE
do
echo "$LINE"
done

Is this your exact requirement? If you just want to print the lines then you can very well say followingin your script
#!/bin/ksh
grep a data.dat

If you want to do some processing then you can...

Thanks Perderabo

I think I asked for too much :(
My script is as follows
#!/bin/csh
echo -n "login: "
read login
echo $login

When i run the script
jolt% ./test_read.csh
login: sheetal
login: Undefined...

Can you post some sample data from yourfile?

Using combination of awk and grep i think you should be able do achieve it.

Thanks

Thanks a lot for your help

Sorry i didnt mention that i am using ksh shell, and as per man pages for echo
"In addition, ksh's echo, does not have a -n option. :( "

doesnt matter ...i will...

Is it possible to read the username being on the same line ,
like login: Sheetal instead of
login:
Sheetal

Eg: when i say in my script
echo "login"
read username

and run this, it...

Will this help
cat filename|grep -v '^$'

You can forward this result to another file ....
cat filename|grep -v '^$' > filename2

Connect to sqlplus and then execute it as belows if your sql file is just a Declare begin end SQL block:
#!/bin/csh

set db_login = <database user>@<connectstring>/<database passwd>

sqlplus -s...