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# 8  
Old 04-10-2009
Franklin's solution in awk is way better than mine. However, if you change the single quotes to double quote the variables will be expanded and my example would work, although it was not exactly what you were looking for Smilie
Code:
for name in $(<temp4); do
nawk -F'|' -v OFS='|' "$2=$name" temp2 > temp3
done

# 9  
Old 04-11-2009
Hey thanks Idapswandog... tried of a lot of other changes but didn't think of single to double quotes Smilie
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