Thanks Man

This definetly makes sense.

However this the scenerio.
Let say I have install 100 patches to a system (Sun Machine). And I am using patchadd command , so I would like to see the output of the patchadd command as well as the number of patches it has installed.

In other words count per line with the command

so the out put might look like this:

1 patch "xxxx001" has been installed
2 patch "xxxx002" has been installed
.
.
.
.
100 patch "xxx100" has been installed

so in other words not just echo of line but some command as well

Sincere apologies if I look like a fool but ....