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Thanks all, I was able to solve the problem. What I didn't know until I debuged it with the sh -x command is that when I move the data from the file to a variable i get the data\r So I solved it with the following command. for i in `<file1 awk '{$1 == "FieldName:"} print $2}' | awk...

Thanks I finally figured it out. When I get the data from the file into $i it has the \r on the end of the data ex. "loan_dt\r" cannot see this with any editor finally found it by doing sh -x to debug the shell. Didn't know that command. I fixed it by running it through another awk...

I need help! I am trying to use sed in a for loop and does not seem to be working correctly. If I have a file called file2 that contains: Field: LOAN_DATE and I do: i="loan_date" sed -i "s/${i}/${i}/I" file2 This works replacing LOAN_DATE with loan_date The problem is when I put this in a...

Thought of it but needs to be idential to File1 which can be a mix of upper and lower.

Thanks for any help. I have 2 files and I am reading in the second file and reformating it with output going to a third file. My problem is I need to read the first file and compare with second file and if data in a field matches I need to replace it with the data from the first file. The...