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The key thing is doing something different with the second instance than the first, which is why I'm trying to find a way to move straigth to the nth found instance.

Is there anything more...

I have an if statement where I state that if there are more than one records (lines) found containing a string in a file, then it enters into a while loop to use each line for as many lines as there...

Noted; once I have my head removed from this excessively long script I will take a look at the guide.

Perl is also on my list to-do!

Thanks all.

Thanks, that worked, but I had to ditch the /is/{ and }

Not sure why. Are there differences between sed on one platform to another? I'm on Solaris 10.

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Ok, new user, relatively new to scripting and need to move to the next stage with awk or sed or both. I have been using them both at a basic level in my script.

I want to find a line, no problem,...