Shell Programming and Scripting

awk '!(/^$/||/--/||/selected/){print "A." $1 " <> B." $1 " or"}' infile |sed '$ s/ or$/;/'

awk '!(/^$/||/--/||/selected/||/^ *$/){print "A." $1 " <> B." $1 " or"}' report3.txt |sed '$ s/ or$/;/'

grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*$|^--*$|record\(s\) selected' data | sed 's/.*/A.& <> B.& or/; $s/or$/;/'

#!/bin/sh

# Usage: scriptname source-file destination-file

src=$1
dest=$2

ed -s "$src" <<EOED
    g/^[[:space:]]*$/d
    g/^--*$/d
    /record(s) selected/d
    1,\$s/.*/A.& <> B.& or/
    \$s/or/;/
    w $dest
    q
EOED