For two fields and assuming that line 1 in a file could also be your special character, you could try:
which, with your sample input produces the output:
If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
PS. Just to be clear, the above code produces the same output if the input file is:
instead of the provided sample, while the other suggestions in this thread don't seem to produce the desired output in this case. It isn't clear to me from the provided description of the input file format whether or not this matters for the submitter's real world data.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 07-29-2015 at 03:04 PM..
Reason: Add PS.
Hi,
I need your kind help to get min and max values from file based on value in $5 .
File1
SP12.3 stc 2240806 2240808 + ID1_N003 ID2_N003T0
SP12.3 sto 2241682 2241684 + ID1_N003 ID2_N003T0
SP12.3 XE 2239943 2240011 + ID1_N003 ID2_N003T0
SP12.3 XE 2240077 2241254 + ID1_N003 ... (12 Replies)
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I know that this will find the max value of column 1.
awk 'BEGIN {max = 0} {if ($1>max) max=$1} END {print max}' input.file
But what if I needed to ignore special characters in the... (3 Replies)
aaa: 3 ms
aaa: 2 ms
aaa: 5 ms
aaa: 10 ms
..........
to get the 3 2 5 10 ...'s min avg and max
something like
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Hi,
I have a file which looks like this:
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12AB43131 12AB43131 N 17774 906341 0.01961
65HJ87451 65HJ87451 N 10149 906341 0.0112
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Hi guys!
I'm new to scripting and I need to write a script in awk.
Here is example of file on which I'm working
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ATOM 4689 HG2 PRO A 322 18.850 61.220 137.010 1.00 0.00
ATOM 4690 CD ... (18 Replies)
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hi, i have an awk script and I managed to figure out how to search the max value but Im having difficulty in searching for the min field value.
BEGIN {FS=","; max=0}
NF == 7 {if (max < $6) max = $6;}
END { print man, min}
where $6 is the column of a field separated by a comma (3 Replies)