Thread: Urgent: Help on grep the nearest value using bash script
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Re: Urgent: Help on grep the nearest value using bash script

 
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Apr 3rd, 2008
Actually, oops, you can change the

Shell Scripting Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. j < var

part to

Shell Scripting Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. j <= var

just noticed that

Shell Scripting Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. awk 'BEGIN {var=3; highest=0}{ j = $NF;if ( j <= var && j > highest ) { highest=j} } END {print highest}' YourInputFile

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