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Is perl an option? 
Is the data in the file as you posted 
Name 
Dob 
Town 
 
Presumably you are aware that this is a help rather than a seemingly homework assignment that experts here will solve for you? 
 
Can you post what script you attempted and have?
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Is perl an option?
Is the data in the file as you posted
Name
Dob
Town

Presumably you are aware that this is a help rather than a seemingly homework assignment that experts here will solve for you?

Can you post what script you attempted and have?

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if the input file looks like the above, this should work 
 
sed -e 's/^$[^[:space:]]$[[:space:]]\(.*\)$/\1=&quot;\2&quot;'/ -e 's/^TOWN/&amp;;if test town = &quot;jibouti&quot; ; then echo -e &quot;NAME $NAME\nDOB $DOB\nTOWN $TOWN\n&quot; ; fi/' | sh 
 
beware this will only work providing 
-&gt; the format of the file is the one provided without missing lines or lines in a different order 
-&gt; the values never contain double-quotes 
 
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it would probably be easier using awk, perl, ... but here is the shell way
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if the input file looks like the above, this should work

sed -e 's/^$[^[:space:]]$[[:space:]]$.*$$/\1="\2"'/ -e 's/^TOWN/&;if test town = "jibouti" ; then echo -e "NAME $NAME\nDOB $DOB\nTOWN $TOWN\n" ; fi/' | sh

beware this will only work providing
-> the format of the file is the one provided without missing lines or lines in a different order
-> the values never contain double-quotes

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it would probably be easier using awk, perl, ... but here is the shell way

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Hello Geeks, 
 
I need to find the names of all those persons in a text file on the basis of town. 
 
for example if the town matches Djibouti,then it should reflect me the name. 
 
I want this in unix environ ment 
 
NAME &nbsp;RAJ Kumar 
 
DOB 22121987 
 
TOWN DIGBOI 
 
NAME Shanti 
 
DOB 01111986 
 
TOWN ITANAGAR 
 
NAME ROSY 
 
DOB 07082010 
 
TOWN DJIBOUTI
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Hello Geeks,

I need to find the names of all those persons in a text file on the basis of town.

for example if the town matches Djibouti,then it should reflect me the name.

I want this in unix environ ment

NAME  RAJ Kumar

DOB 22121987

TOWN DIGBOI

NAME Shanti

DOB 01111986

TOWN ITANAGAR

NAME ROSY

DOB 07082010

TOWN DJIBOUTI

how to filter name w.r.t to town in a notepad file

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