Wu-Kung Sun, have solve the line breaking problem. Now something else.
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:23:34 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ for line in $(cat temp1);do echo > "20070622,$line">>temp2 ;done FYI, the best approach for your above is to use sed, which can still maintain lighting speed even the "temp1" is 1g or 10g in size: sed 's/^/20070622,/' temp1 >> temp2 -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]