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# 8  
Old 10-16-2008
I put in the missing echos to your script and had the $q changed to "${q}" just to make sure the value/strings will be used completely and I got some output in nav1.txt. Here is your changed script.

If you like you can explain what you need from this line so we can have it a bit easier and compact with maybe 1-2 lines of code. Nevertheless, here you go:

Code:
while read j
do
        q1=0
        q1=`echo "${j}" | grep 'INFO - LPBatch:' | wc -l`
        if [ $q1 -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "${j}" | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f8,42,43 >> nav1.txt
        fi

        q2=0
        q2=`echo "${j}" | grep 'INFO - Number of Intervals Not Inserted:' | wc -l`
        if [ $q2 -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "${j}" | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f6-13 >> nav1.txt
        fi
done < nav11.txt

Output of nav1.txt:
Code:
1-GH32X, CC, AMR,
Number of Intervals Not Inserted: 1 / 95
1-VIN74, CC, AMR,

Not sure if that is the stuff you want though.
# 9  
Old 10-16-2008
When I modified your script from the first post:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/sh

while read j; do
        q1=0
        q1=`echo "$j" | grep 'INFO - LPBatch:' | wc -l`
        if [ $q1 -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "$j" | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f8,42,43 >> nav1.txt
        fi

        q2=0
        q2=`echo "$j" | grep 'INFO - Number of Intervals Not Inserted:' | wc -l`
        if [ $q2 -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "$j" | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f6-13 >> nav1.txt
        fi
done

Got this output:

Code:
$ cat nav1.txt 
Number of Intervals Not Inserted: 1 / 95
1-GH32X, CC, AMR,
Number of Intervals Not Inserted: 1 / 95
1-VIN74, CC, AMR,

With no errors.
# 10  
Old 10-16-2008
ok. thanks everybody for their precious help. i got the o/p with echo "${J}"

also i have little modified the script to add elif function. can any1 tell
where i m going wrong below in the elif part


while read j
do
q1=0
q2=0

q1=`echo "${j}" | grep 'INFO - LPBatch:' | wc -l`
if [ $q1 -eq 1 ]
then
echo "${j}" | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f8,42,43 >> nav1.txt
fi

q2=`echo "${j}" | grep 'INFO - Number of Intervals Not Inserted:' | wc -l`
elif [ $q2 -eq 1 ]
then
echo "${j}" | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f6-13 >> nav1.txt
fi

else
echo "${j}" >> asma
fi

done < nav11.txt
# 11  
Old 10-16-2008
You finish the if sentence with fi and then start an elif ... ?
It should go like this:
if [ something ]; then
something
elif [ somethingelse ]; then
somethingelse
else
whenallelsefails
fi
# 12  
Old 10-16-2008
Please use [ code ] and [ /code ] to display your code in those fancy eye friendly blue boxes. Also please describe what is not working now since you last changes.

To shorten it up, maybe you just post what's the wanted output.
# 13  
Old 10-16-2008
my mistake a silly one .Actually if elif should be ended with one fi.

I really appreciate everbody's help. hatz off to all unix guru
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