Hi, I wonder if someone can assist. I'm attempting to generate a 3 line output from a rather lengthy file (see input extract). I'm interested in the State, High Availability Mode and Priority values of adapter ent9 only. This adapter (ent9) has been parsed via the -v option. I'm essentially interested in a mere 3 lines associated with ent9 stanza which may occur anywhere in the file. My key problem is I keep pulling in 'rogue' lines I have no interest in. How do I switch off processing on encountering the final value of interest to me - "Priority: 1" Thanks, Input file: ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent9) : Statistics for adapters in the Shared Ethernet Adapter ent9 State: PRIMARY High Availability Mode: Auto Priority: 1 Real Adapter: ent8 ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent8) : Priority: 2 ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent0) : Priority: 1 Active: True ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent1) : Virtual Adapter: ent3 LAN State: Operational ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent3) : LAN State: Operational Control Adapter: ent2 ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent2) : Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan) Specific Statistics: Desired output: State;PRIMARY Mode;Auto Priority;1 adpter=ent9 nawk -v adpter=${adpter} 'BEGIN {FS=":"} $0 ~/^Statistics for adapters in the Shared Ethernet Adapter/ && $0 ~adpter { next } $0 ~/State/ { STATE=$2; printf("%s;%s\n", "State",substr(STATE,2)) } $0 ~/Mode/ { print ... etc} $0 ~/Priority/ {print ...etc}'