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:b:Thank you so much to everyone for help out answering difficult questions (to me only) and their patience. You are my favourite Unix forums that I can turn to from now on.

Good job well done!
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:)Hi,


$ awk -F\| '{print $NF}' employee1.txt | sed -n 'N;N;N;/\nSmith\n.*\n.*$/p;/\nJones\n.*\n.*$/p'
Jessica
Smith
16/09/2000
Female
Kyle
Jones
02/10/1945
Male


The negation of...

:)Hi All,

Both of the following statements provided are working:


$ awk -F\| '{print $NF}' employee1.txt | sed -n 'N;N;N;/\n[Smith]\n.*\n>
Jessica
Smith
16/09/2000
Female

$
awk...

:)Hi Peasant,

Thanks for weighing into this thread.

Your suggestion is the closest to what I am looking for so far. Let's have a look at the how I have applied it to the same example:

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:)Hi Peasant,

Thanks for weighing into this thread.

Your suggestion is the closest to what I am looking for so far. Let's have a look at the how I have applied to the same example:


$...

:)Hi jawsnnn & drl,

Below is the employee.txt as requested:

$ more employee.txt
John
Barry
21/04/1988
Male
Jessica
Smith
16/09/2000
Female
Joyce
Brown
05/12/1985
Female
Kyle...

:)Hi jawsnnn,

Thanks for your valuable input.

There is no need to provide sample input data file since your understanding of its composition is correct as shown from this initial post....

Hi All,

I am looking for a simple concise solution most likely using sed to process the following 4 rows of data from the same record and only keeps it if the second record satisfy certain critea...