https://bbs.archlinux.org – I'm not a mysql expert, so maybe I'm missing something. Still, wouldn't it work to pipe the results through awk instead of a while loop?mysql -e "SELECT title,summary,body,added,modified FROM news" \ | awk -F"\t" '{print $1}'... or the like? /dev/zero https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=53443 2012-05-23T05:43:15Z (HowTos)