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Also, 2 other important questions regarding this technique.

Using the 'while read', I'm able to capture each 'word' of a line in a seperate variable, while processing all of the lines in the file....

That's outstanding.

Will this still work in my version of ksh, even when it appears that $(command) isn't working? Or do I need to do the obvious, and replace the $(command) with `command` ?

It's going to be difficult to parse that many row in any shell script.

Are you not able to load the files into a DB via isql, bcp, or sqlplus?

The first two tips are GREAT thanks. SQL*Plus is new to me, as nearly all my experience has been with ISQL.

Your last suggestion is extremly interesting to me, as I can barely follow what's going...

I'm using korn shell to connect to oracle, retrieve certain values, put them in a list, and iterate through them. While this method works, I can't help but think there is an easier method.

If you...