Hello All, I was parsing a log file and storing the values in thetable,I dont know how to handle the variables so that value gets stored in the databasetable: #!bin/bash file="/home/tej/filechanges" cat $file |while read line do operation= echo $line|cut -f1 -d" " changes= echo $line|cut -f2 -d" " mysql -u username -ppassword -e "use dockerlogs;INSERT INTO logs(operation,file) VALUES (/"$operation/",/"$changes/")" done but the database comes empty,instead of /$operation and $changes I store it as ('1','1'); the values do get stored,how to handle the variables? Thanks and Regards Tej Gandhi