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

NAME
service - run a System V init script SYNOPSIS
service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS] service --status-all service --help | -h | --version DESCRIPTION
service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working directory set to /. The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT. The supported values of COMMAND depend on the invoked script, service passes COMMAND and OPTIONS it to the init script unmodified. All scripts should support at least the start and stop commands. As a special case, if COMMAND is --full-restart, the script is run twice, first with the stop command, then with the start command. service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command. EXIT CODES
service calls the init script and returns the status returned by it. FILES
/etc/init.d The directory containing System V init scripts. ENVIRONMENT
LANG, TERM The only environment variables passed to the init scripts. SEE ALSO
/etc/init.d/skeleton, update-rc.d(8), init(8), invoke-rc.d(8). Jan 2006 service(8)
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