Shell Programming and Scripting

i could not get the close statement to work. I decided to create a reference file for now.
printed the user column and removed duplicates to file userlist.txt
created script to read per line from userlist.txt and grep inputdata.txt into body of email
if there is a will there is a way. I know there is a more efficient way but i will search and tweak at my leisure

So just remove the close...and Franklin52's awk script will work.

Code:

awk '{print $2,$3,$4 > $1 ".txt"}' file

This may break if it goes over the system limit for the maximum number of open files.