Hi all! i'm just did a script that the output must be comma separated to be imported into a spreadsheet. the output that i obteined was Date/Time,We. Active Threads,W. Total Threads,W. Worker Threads,Name 29-12-10/11:43:01,0,250,0,/FIM ,0,/mytest ,0,/mockofprod/financing/customercentre ,0,/mockofprod/financing/commercial/amt ,0,/account/orderstatus ,0,/activities as you can see, the first row it's ok, but the second and third, etc etc, are not formated. any ideas of how can i achive this? NOTE: the first three values are simple commands that i put in order, the fourth and fifth are from a file. this is part of the code. printf "%s,%d,%d" $DATE $WSAT $WSTT >> output.${STANZA}.txt for i in `cat jlist.${STANZA}.txt` do JUNCTION=${i} WSWJ=`pdadmin -a sec_master -p ${PASSWD} server task ${STANZA} show ${JUNCTION} | grep 'threads' | awk '{ print $4 }'` printf ",%d,%s\n" ${WSWJ} ${JUNCTION} >> output.${STANZA}.txt done ---------------------------------- Alejandro Rodriguez Luna Movil: 044-311-112-86-41 ---------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101229/ddcfbd2d/attachment-0004.html>