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@ahamed101 and Scrutinizer

Thanks for the help guys. They both worked. Sorry for the silly mistakes, bash scripting and programming in general is rather new to me.

Yes. It works perfectly.

Yes. I'm trying to search for all users who have a first name matching the input and display the details of the matching users.

I'm using ElementaryOS. Here's my code:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Please enter a name:"
read input
echo `grep -w "$input" list.txt | awk `

BEGIN{ fmt="%20s%20s\n" }
function prt()
...

Thanks for the help, but I still have a minor problem.The output is displayed on a single line.

First Name: John Last Name: Shepherd Phone Number: 770-767-4040 Country: U.S.A State: New York First...

Example input:

John:Shepherd:770-767-4040:U.S.A:New York
Mo Jo:Jo Jo: 666-666-6666:U.S.A:Townsville


Expected Output:

First Name: John
Last Name: Shepherd
Phone Number: 770-767-4040...