<p dir="ltr">It isn't a requirement. I simply like awk.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2015 10:56 AM, "AL F" <<a href="mailto:allanf@linuxquestions.net">allanf@linuxquestions.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Saul Alanis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdalano@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdalano@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">2 | <span>foo</span> | bar<br>
4 | bar | <span>foo</span><br>
1 | bar | <span>foo</span><br>
3 | <span>foo</span> | bar</p></blockquote></div><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​Why is <span>awk</span> a <span>reqirement</span>?  Simply use the <span>comand</span>:<br>​sort -n YOURDATAFILEGOESHERE | tail -n 1 | cut -d\| -f1<br><br><br></div></div></div>
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