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Efficiency.<br>
sort is O(n lg n), an awk solution should be O(n)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/21/15 10:56 AM, AL F wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Saul
Alanis <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p dir="ltr">2 | <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
id="00a7855c-7f58-48d3-b32b-f2f0a78a19fe">foo</span> |
bar<br>
4 | bar | <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
id="cb183aa1-750b-4d36-85a3-c1c136431308">foo</span><br>
1 | bar | <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
id="166650af-5c00-49c2-aaf5-8db3141dd3d5">foo</span><br>
3 | <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
id="9fe25979-bc45-4876-89bc-6f89cfa124ba">foo</span> |
bar</p>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Why is <span
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id="4d60ff50-1ea4-4857-a938-48df343b8a4c">awk</span> a <span
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id="41084dc2-c33a-47cc-8634-b64ad098b2fe">reqirement</span>?
Simply use the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
id="e3976727-975d-4939-82c4-6e353ddf5dfe">comand</span>:<br>
sort -n YOURDATAFILEGOESHERE | tail -n 1 | cut -d\| -f1<br>
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