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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Picking high and low variables in a bash script - possible? Post 302374630 by momo.reina on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 05:37:48 AM
Old 11-25-2009
check the man pages for sort. then once the data is sorted use sed to print out the first and last item.

here's an example using ls, i'll sort files by size then print the largest


Code:
mo@mo-laptop:~/scripts$ ls -l | awk '{ print $5 }' | sort -nr | sed -e '2,$d'
1366
mo@mo-laptop:~/scripts$

i used awk to strip everything out of the output except the file size. if your positional parameters are only number, this is unecessary
 

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readahead(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      readahead(8)

NAME
readahead - file preloader for boot process optimization SYNOPSIS
readahead [options] <file-list> [another-file-list [...]] DESCRIPTION
readahead is a files preloader designed to optimize the disk I/O during the boot process. OPTIONS
-b, --build build optimised files list only, without sorting. -s, --sort build and sort list of files only (implies -b). -o, --output <file> write sorted list of files to file. -d, --dont-sort preload files described by an already sorted files list. -h, --help print the usage information. -v, --verbose enable the verbose mode. -t, --timing report time spent on each operation. -m, --maxsize <max size> maximum size in KiB a file can be in order to be preloaded, default is 10240. <file-list> [another-file-list [...]] One or more files containing the list of files to be preloaded or sorted. The files list can be generated by readahead-collector(8). FILES
/etc/default/readahead-fedora SEE ALSO
readahead-collector(8), readahead(2), AUTHORS
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@klika.si>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, This manual page was written by Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> July 2011 readahead(8)
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