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11-28-2008

halola85

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count the max by awk

hey everybody ..
I have a problem when I use this command to count the Max number by awk it give to me 99 while there are numbers bigger than 99

awk 'NR==0 { temp = $0 ;next}
{ if ( $0 >= temp ) { temp=$0 } }
END{ print "Maximum Number:"temp""}' file

thank you for your help ..

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