awk '{ k = $1; sub("^[^ ]* *", "", $0); d[k] = $0; } END { print d["Title"], "by", d["Artist"]; }' Personally I'm a bit of a sed fan sed -nE '/^Artist/{N;

awk '{ k = $1; sub("^[^ ]* *", "", $0); d[k] = $0; } END { print d["Title"], "by", d["Artist"]; }' Personally I'm a bit of a sed fan sed -nE '/^Artist/{N;s/^Artist +(.*)\nTitle +(.*)/\2 by \1/p;}'