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awk -F, '{sub(/ .*/,x,$3)}1' OFS=, file

Do you mean something like:
awk '
/TOTAL TYPE:/ {
printf("%s %s %s %s\n", $1, $2, $3, s)
next
}
{ s = substr($0, 50, 2)
}' file1 > file2which produces:
TOTAL...

awk '
NR==FNR {a[$1]=1; next}
($1 in a)
' shortfile longfile

A $1+0 cast is not needed because all numbers have equal length.
HP-UX awk is very similar to nawk.

awk ' { if(($0 ~ /^700/)&&(substr($0,11,2)==79)) print; } ' filename

what shell are you using?
works fine on bash on Linux.

Try using '\\n' instead of '\n'

awk '/132\.101-/{print;getline;print}' INFILE1 > outfile1

Following are the issues with your awk:

awk '/132.101-/{f=2;print;next}f{print;exit}' INFILE1 >outfile1

1) The regex is not correct...

Hi Scottie1954,

Try the following, there are two spaces before the star;

cat "filename" | sed 's/, */,/g' > "newfilename"

Regards

Dave

Try sed "1,${LINE}d". Alternatively, try:
sed -n '/PLASTICS THAT EXPIRE/,$p' infile

Chubler_XL's suggestion is missing a semicolon. To be posix-compliant, there should be a semi-colon after the d command:
sed '/[0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/{N;/\n$/d;}' infile > outfile

With regard to my...

@Alister - Nice explination and good pickup on pattern on last line of file

Scottie1955 - You could try using awk:

awk '/[0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/ { K=$0; next }
K { if(length) print K "\n" $0;...