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try removing print ":"$2":";

OK. I get it. You don't want to tell us what you're trying to do. You just want us to guess at what you're trying to do by showing us code that doesn't work. Showing us more code that apparently...

@bakunin, the var// / modifier exists in bash or zsh or ksh93 (and works the same).

But a "wanted output" would clarify things.
I guess you want to delete embedded strings .txt OR .log from the...

With a little modification you can make it work:
sed -e 's/, IP address: /, IP address: /' -e 's/, IP address: / /g' newt4Initially you cannot use the /g search because the first string...

The paranthesis increase readability, especially with such a long concatenation.
The OFS make sense because the string is destined for printing. An intuitive thing, at least for me.

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Also look a simple menu building script as a sample of using select and case:...

Having added code tags to the data as well, I see that file1 has a lot of whitespace (spaces and/or tabs) in the fields. If you're using -F to specify a very specific field separator (,), then the...

Did you do the same to file1?
Did you specified NEW/converted files on the awk's cli?
Looks like you have a trailing , in file1?

Also, please get accustomed to used code tags in your posts!

And what command did you use that produced the output you showed us in post #11?

In addition to what RudiC has already said, we also have to assume that you realize that the sanitized output you...

Did you check your file for DOS line terminators (<CR> = ^M = 0x0D)?