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Old 02-11-2009
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Originally Posted by gio001 View Post
How about this .....

awk '{print $2" "$1}' file_in_input | sort -k 2 -k 1rn | uniq -f 1 |awk '{print $2" "$1}' >output_file

Hope this is what you needed.
G.
way too many unnecessary 'pipes' for my taste....