awk command to copy field to bottom records

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Hi All,

I have a below input, I want to copy the Job_name and Created_by field information to other bottom records as shown in below Output

Job_name Created_by Modified_on Modified_by
CGI_ACLMIB n38504 2014-05-07 20:40:48 n38504
2014-05-07 20:40:57 n38504
2014-05-08 20:40:57 n48504

Output

Job_name Created_by Modified_on Modified_by
CGI_ACLMIB n38504 2014-05-07 20:40:48 n38504
CGI_ACLMIB n38504 2014-05-07 20:40:57 n38504
CGI_ACLMIB n38504 2014-05-08 20:40:57 n48504

Is there any way we can achive using awk command

Thanks,
Somaraju

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Try:

awk 'NR==2{job=$1;created=$2} NF==3 {print job FS created FS $0} NF>3' inputfile