[dazed]Evening tried link supplied by LKB but no joy
here is what I tried
{code}
vi iostat.ksh
"iostat.ksh" 13 lines, 313 characters
awk -F'|' -v fields="11,3,4,8,10" '
BEGIN{
#header array
h[1]="r/s";
h[2]="w/s";
h[3]="kr/s";
h[4]="kw/s";
h[5]="wait";
h[6]="actv";
h[7]="wsvc_t";
h[8]="asvc_t"...