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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding Max value from an array Post 302339752 by matrixmadhan on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:19:46 AM
Old 07-31-2009
Thanks for posting what you have tried Smilie

One more variable and keep flipping - but not efficient

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{ max = -1; second_max = -1 }{ if ( $0 > max ) { second_max = max; max = $0 } }END{ print second_max }' file

 

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Max(3pm)						  LogReport's Lire Documentation						  Max(3pm)

NAME
Lire::Max - Lire class that implements the max operator SYNOPSIS
use Lire::Max DESCRIPTION
Class that implements the max operator. This operator will find the minimum value appearing in a DLF field among a group of DLF records. METHODS
new( %params ) Creates a new Lire::Max object. SEE ALSO
Lire::ReportSpec(3pm), Lire::ReportOperator(3pm), Lire::Aggregator(3pm), Lire::Aggregate(3pm). AUTHOR
Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org> VERSION
$Id: Max.pm,v 1.10 2008/03/09 19:27:31 vanbaal Exp $ COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org This file is part of Lire. Lire is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. Lire 2.1.1 2008-03-09 Max(3pm)
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