Shell Programming and Scripting

hi
i have the following function, reading file line by line,
if line contains "Change state" i need to cut some fields otherwise i need to append the total line to the new file


function parse()
{
while read LINE
do
echo $LINE |grep -q "Change state"
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]
then
echo $LINE |grep -q "Change state" | cut -d ' ' -f 7-7 >>change.txt
else
$LINE >> change.txt
fi
done < $file
}

parse

whats the problem you are facing...