Hi All, I need an urgent help with a complex situation. I really appreciate your help! I have a parameter file like this. unix> cat script.par name=david city=phoenix job=(admin,manager) admin_role=(calls,meetings,gusts) manager_role=(meetings,workers) age=60 I have to use the above parameters in a shell script. Since the number of parameters are high I can't pass them as $1.. $10 etc in the command prompt. Number of parameters in script.par can vary. In the shell script I need to read the values in script.par and assign them to different variables as shown below! name=david city=phoenix job_1=admin job_2=manager admin_role_1=calls admin_role_2=meetings admin_role_3=gusts manager_role_1=meetings manager_role_2=workers age=60 Please let me know how to achieve this. I hope I am clear on my questions. I appreciate your help. Thank you so much! Have a great day, Sam --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster.