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I can see why that didn't work. `cat file` isn't just a useless use of cat, it also doesn't do what you want -- it will split on all whitespace, not just lines.

Did you try any of our suggestions...

#!/bin/bash

while read line
do
for word in ${line//,/ }
do
[[ "$word" = "INFO" ]] && continue # skip if $word = INFO
grep "$word" test.txt...

OR Try

$ awk '{gsub(","," ");
for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){
if(!A[$i]++){
X[$1]=X[$1]?X[$1]","$i:$1" "$i}}}
END{print X[$1]}' file

XPAR 1,196,95,77

awk -F'[, ]' ' p ~ $1 {
for(i=2;i<=NF;i++) {
if($i != "")
printf ",%s",$i;
...

The script bipinajith provided puts out a <comma> before the first XPAR value, uses <comma> instead of <comma><space> to separate XPAR values, and outputs duplicated XPAR values multiple times. I...