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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting checking the smallest and largest number Post 302188752 by Franklin52 on Thursday 24th of April 2008 07:11:19 AM
Old 04-24-2008
Try this:

Code:
awk -F- '
/INFO/{v=int($NF)}
{if(NR==1){min=max=v;next}}
{if(max<v){max=v}if(min>v){min=v}}
END{print "Min: " min,"Max: "max}' file

Regards
 

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