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I was under the impression that the string (gender) was part of your sample file.

Change the code to :

sed 's/^Male\|^Female/&*/g' file1 | awk -F'\n' '$2 ~ /^Smith/ {print}' RS='*'


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I think the first variation should work fine for multiple surnames. Let me explain the solution:


sed 's/(gender)/&*/g' file1 | awk -F'\n' '$2 ~ /^Smith.*/ {print}' RS='*'


1. I appended an...

Can you please provide a sample input file and intended output file.... I am a bit confused about what you are assuming to be a record in your file.

Based on my understanding ( that a record will...