On 12/1/10, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Ok, last try... > Did you copy/pasted my code? > Did you type it? > Saying just that there's a syntax error without showing the code you used > does > not help... > > JD > Please find below the code that I tried : cat Edit3 | tr -d "\r" | while read LINE; do echo "$LINE" | grep -q '>\.\.' if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then LOGFILE=`echo $LINE | cut -d' ' -f1`.log else echo "$LINE" >> $LOGFILE fi done Please do me favor and correct me on my mistakes.