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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Selecting lowest and highest values in columns 1 and 2, based on subsets in column 3 Post 302629915 by hubleo on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 07:59:13 AM
Old 04-25-2012
Hi, many thanks for your reply! That prints the max value in column 2 for the specific name in column 3, but not the minimum value in column 1. I'll have a play and see if I can get that to work. One solution that was provided elsewhere was, which works perfectly is:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

awk '{
if ( larr[$3] == "" ) {
  larr[$3] = $1
  harr[$3] = $2 
}
if ( larr[$3] != "" ) {
  if ( larr[$3] >= $1 ) { larr[$3] = $1 }
  if ( harr[$3] <= $2 ) { harr[$3] = $2 }
}
}
END { for (x in larr)
     print larr[x], harr[x],x
}' infile > outfile

Thanks again for your help!
 

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colrm

COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME

     colrm -- remove columns from a file

SYNOPSIS

     colrm [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

     The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file.  A column is defined as a single character in a line.  Input is read
     from the standard input.  Output is written to the standard output.

     If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written.  If both start and stop columns are spec-
     ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.  Column numbering starts with one, not
     zero.

     Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.  Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)

HISTORY

     The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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								  August 4, 2004							       BSD
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