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awk -v D=$var1 '! match($0,/'"$var1"'|'"$var2"'|'"$var3"'/) {s=substr($0,20,length-19); $0=D s}1' urfile

See, that's why I said make sure that f3 has the spaces at the end itself. It doesn't. read will strip away the contents of $IFS from everything it reads before assigning it to the variable. This...

try this ?
a[] is an array keeping track how many times the account has appeared. if it appears the first time, we print it

awk '{account=substr($0,1,30); a[account]++; if(a[account]==1){print...