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Unix Handson - 4
4. Unix : Highest Score
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Student details are stored in a file in the following order with space as the delimiter:
RollNo Name Score
Write a unix command to find the name of the Student who has the highest score.
The file will be given as a command line argument when the script containing your command will run.
For example,
If the input file has the below content
RollNo Name Score
234 ABC 70
567 QWE 12
457 RTE 56
234 XYZ 80
456 ERT 45
The output will be
XYZ
Solution
sort -k3,3 -rn -t" " | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'
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