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thankyou so much, it works!!

Second Question: Instead of displaying the record, what would i need to do to remove the name and their address?

echo "Please enter the name to remove"
read name
...

I'm not familiar with awk at all ! :(

is there a simplified way such as a grep/sed select statement that can work??

there's nothing in the phone book file except the names of the people.

1. John Doe:1234 Main Street: City:State
2. John Smith: Address:City:State
3. John Something: Address: City: State

The Sed/Grep command is really confusing me. I know I'm missing something that should be really easy to fix. My program displays multiple names after I ask it to display only one, How do I get it to...

I have to create a unix program that will mail the contents of a file to a list of users.The file to be mailed will be provided as an argument to the program on the command line. The list of users or...