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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Grepping for one variable while using awk to parse an associated variable Post 303042736 by ncwxpanther on Sunday 5th of January 2020 08:54:24 AM
Old 01-05-2020
Rudi

Id like to print the greatest $4 value less than the one in variables.txt but searching from the 2019 value in $3 in decreasing order, i.e., 2019, 2018, 2017...
 

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