vgersh99,
the command reproduces a line of data, but I want to put parts of that line ($1, $8, $9, $14, $15, $16, $17) into variable for inserting (echoing in my example) into a table. I am anticipating having the data from 'column' 1, 'column' 8, 'column' 9, etc in variables name1, name2...