what about:

====================

cat <<! |
. type:nsr client
show name;client id
print
!
nsradmin -i - |
awk '
{
        if( $0 ~ /;$/ ) {
                n = acc $0
                sub(/^[ \t]+/,"",n);
                sub(/[ \t]+$/,"",n);
                sub(/;$/,"",n);
                sub(/[ \t]*:[ \t]*/,":",n)
                print n
                acc = ""
                next;
        }
        if( $0 ~ /\\$/ ) {
                sub(/\\$/,"");
                acc = acc " " $0
                next;
        }
        print
}
END {
         print acc;
}
' |
awk -F: '
/name/ {
        name = $2

}
/client id/ {
        all[name] = $2

}
END {
        for ( i in all ) {
                print i ": " all[i]
        }
} ' |
sort -u

===============================

The first awk deals with continuation lines
and general cleanup of empty space
and prepares for the second awk which handles duplicate client entries 

Maarten

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 14:53, Kathleen wrote:
> In nsradmin I need to print the client name and the client id, but I want
> to send it to a file.  I am using UNIX.  Any suggestion is appreciated.
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