Hi
I have a file in which I have the following lines alongwith many other lines. How can I grep the following lines for the user, version,server name and date time

For example the users in the following lines are brown, martin, stephen

Server names are elicserv1.muc.ifin.com, elicserv2.muc.ifin.com

Time and date are Mon 3/11 18:31 ...etc

Following are the lines which are to be grepped for the above informations

brown vihl729 172.31.176.71:8532503_6 (v2013.02) (elicserv1.muc.ifin.com/3120 6260), start Mon 3/11 18:31
stephen blrl267 172.20.150.73:233707_1 (v2) (elicserv2.muc.ifin.com/3120 4789), start Tue 3/12 6:32
martin vihlc295 172.31.176.73:33228361_1 (v2012.11) (elicserv1.muc.ifin.com/3120 4152), start Wed 3/6 12:08

Please help.

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