Does anyone have a unix script to trim spaces prior to the column separators in sqlplus output, ie, I have output like his: LAST NAME |FIRST NAME |BIRTHDAY Kerber |Andrew |Aug01 That I want to look like this: LAST NAME|FIRST NAME|BIRTHDAY Kerber|Andrew|Aug01 I am sure this has been solved many times, but for some reason I dont have one of these in my script collection. -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'