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Old 02-07-2007
sb008 sb008 is offline Forum Advisor  
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I'm sure the real (n)awk experts have a better solution.

nawk '/^Name[ ]*:/ { NAM=$0 }; /^Address[ ]*:/ { ADDR=$0 }; /^City[ ]*:/ { print NAM"|"ADDR"|"$0 }' file1.txt | paste -d"|" - file2.txt | nawk '{ FS="|" } { print $1; print $4; print $3 }'