for i in p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p11a p12 p12a p13 p13a p14 p14a p14b p14c p15 p15a p15b p16 p17 p18 p18a p19 do # echo "$i-----------------" #grep "total time" ${i}_out.txt | sed -e 's/ //g' | sed -e 's/secondstotaltime//g' grep -B 3 "time spent" ${i}_out.txt | grep ":" | grep -v "time spent" | sed -e 's/ //g' | sed -e 's/:.*$/\1/g' done