Hi,

Please help me in the following assignment.

[USER_1]
Name=user1
SSN=6789
Number= 1234

[USER_2]
Name=user2
SSN=5790
Number=2098

and so on.

I would like to get the following output from the above file:
[USER_1], SSN=6789
[USER_2], SSN=5790
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Appreciate your help.

do the following

awk 'BEGIN{RS=" "}{print $1","$3}' f1 > f2

do the following

awk 'BEGIN{RS=" "}{print $1","$3}' f1 > f2