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Eureka, I found it!

#!/bin/bash
USERLIST="/Users/johndoe/.bin/xBackup_users"
SRCHFOR="W8735UL8Z5V"
#
USERNAME=`awk -F "," '/^'"$SRCHFOR"'/ {print $2}' $USERLIST`
PASSWORD=`awk -F ","...

Great (and thanks), this got me 99% there. Here's a snippet of what I have, using your idea:

#!/bin/bash
USERLIST="/Users/johndoe/.bin/xBackup_users"
SRCHFOR="W8735UL8Z5V"
#
USERNAME=`awk -F...

I need to be able to search a flat file (comma-separated values) for a specific value and then return the following 2 fields into variables. Here's a sample flat file:

SN,Account,IPaddress...