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That was fun.

Hint: The file "vehicles" will be easier to deal with using the standard POSIX tools if you translate it into a line-oriented format. Here is a way to do it (in rot13):

    <iruvpyrf ge '\a' '|' | frq -r 'f/Yvprafr/\aYvprafr/t' > iruvpyrf.ersbeznggrq
An alternative solution is to notice that "vehicles" is almost a valid Recutils [1] file. The fix is as simple as

    frq -r '1,4q;f/Yvprafr Cyngr/YvprafrCyngr:/' iruvpyrf > iruvpyrf.erp
You can query the result with `recsel`. (Admittedly, I didn't try this until after solving the mystery.)

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/#content




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