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It all seems to be working now. Athough I'm still having trouble caused by asterisks in the text. How can I stop the shell from interpreting "*********" as an instruction to display a folder listing?

Ah. OK. I have seen this in other scripts, so thought it was necessary. Interestingly, removing the braces has fixed the lack of tabs and linefeeds, so perhaps braces in this form DO do something.
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Many thanks. That's made the code simpler for starters.
It's also sorted out the problems of the linebreaks in the second bit; but the lack of tabs and linebreaks in the awk command is still there....

Hello
I have created the following script, which is designed to manipulate a text document:
#!/bin/sh
# Get 3 lines, (last of which is "Quantity"); adjust order; put all three on one line with...