Dear Vihang
The script works perfectly after I modified it as you mentioned.
Thanks a lot.
Regards Vidyadutt. You can avoid it by changing the about code to..
for RECORD in `cat tst|awk '{print NF}'`; do if [ $RECORD -ne $FIELDS ]; then NM_CNT=$(($NM_CNT+1)) printf "NM_CNT=$NM_CNT\n" fi done --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.