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thanks for your help.

some of the problems i was having was removing the B from the DOB line. along with the B from the Phone nums.

HOME# cat user2.txt
PT: DARRELL SMITH
PTDOB: 12/15/98
RP:...

xander, yes the code works but it doesnt terminate if locks up and it also doesnt change the source file. that is what i want to accomplish.here is the part of the file as it apears.


RPNUM:...

Here is a sample code

grep '903' -i user.txt | tail -2 | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/B//g'

the input file has data as such
903-xxx-xxxxB
903-xxx-xxxxB
It is a dialer file i want to remove the...