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Hello, I'm trying to grep all people named John from an employee file in Bourne Shell. The problem is that some of the street names also have John in them. For example here are a couple lines of data: Sales John Jacobs 32 Oriole Lane IT Rich Gardener 443 John Street Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thank you.

Name: Leigh
Date: December 1, 2002 at 13:57:23 Pacific

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Jim, Here, give this command a go........ awk '{print $2}' test.dat | grep John It will get the given name field from the file and the grep will only look for John. Cheers Leigh

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I'm sorry, I forgot to say that I actually have to print just the name and address where a person named JOhn is found. That is my problem. Thank you so much.

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Name: Jimbo
Date: December 2, 2002 at 05:19:34 Pacific

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awk '$2 ~ /John/{print $2, $3, $4, $5, $6}' your_file -jim

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Thank you very much!

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