scripting

[ledong]

Hi all,
I need to write a script to bring up a smallest and a largest numbers on a file but i could not figure out. Please help. I am new in this game.

TYVM

Dong Le
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[grega]

What does the file look like? How big is it?

If it has 1 number per line, you could sort it in ascending order, and then take the first line (smallest) and last line (largest) .. i.e. (in ksh)

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SMALLEST=`sort myfile | head -1`
LARGEST=`sort myfile | tail -1`
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You'll need to check the syntax of sort, but that's one possible way.

Greg.
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[ledong]

Hi Greg,

Sorry I forgot.
There were 5 numbers per line and total 12 line on the file.
Please help.

Thanks
Dong
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[bigscouse]

Dong,

try posting this to the awk forum. [sig]<p>Ged Jones<br><a href= > </a><br>Top man[/sig]

 

[jad]

cat $file | awk '{printf (&quot;%05d\n%05d\n%05d\n%05d\n%05d\n&quot;,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5);}' | sort

then do a head and tail on it ...

the %05d is digit (ie number) of 5 digits (minimum) with 0's preceding it if it is not 5 digits big ...

if you have numbers greater than 5 digits increase it, if you have number less than 5, then you can reduce it.

Hmm.