hai here's the answers. 1) i cannot use VB as this is going to happen in a remote pc that is nix based and need to go for higher authorities permission for software installation 2)The problem i have shown is diagramatic representation in excel. We are getting similar output when we extract data from out perl program. 3) since the commands may vary the output may range from 1 line to 50 rows.And as shown in the diagram , the first column will have the commands and the 2nd column will have the output of the commands. did i answered you ? 
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