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Old 01-03-2009
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Try this
cat filename | cut -f2 -d " " | sort -nr | head -1
This is for maximum value -f2 is here for 2nd column for eg
And
cat filename | cut -f2 -d " " | sort -nr | tail -1

For minimum value