<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> hi all, I am just writing some scripts to gather performance data from iostat... or at least trying... I would like to completely skip the first output since boot from iostat output and just get right to the period I specified with the data current from that period. Is this possible at all? br, Rune </body> </html>