On 11/30/10, cybernet <cybernet2u at yahoo.com> wrote: >> cat edit.txt | 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 > As you see in the original text file, each module's log is started with the module's name following with '>..' characters so the code is expected to search for the start of each module's log and try to separate its specific log. I tried for the code but it seems that it has some syntax error that needs to be corrected.