OT: Linux shell script question

[Richard D. Williams]

I have a client who wants to control which menu a user has access to 
upon login.
I have created a filepro file that contains the user name and menu.
When he updates any of these records I call a script to write out a text 
file of all user names and their menu name to a text file in a 
universally accessible directory.

What I want to do is place a script in each users .bashrc to look into 
this file for that user's name and get the menu name one the sam line.
i.e.

johnw   main1
richardw   main2
suer      main1

This seems very simple but I do not use awk or sed very much and I do 
not know the syntax to accomplish this task.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Richard D. Williams