Dear Monks
I have 6 files in which there is two columns per line. I want to compare the first column and each file filed by field, and get the maximum one, retrieve the second column value corresponding to the max value.
for example if I have in my 6 files like this:
file1: 2 3
file2: 4 2
file3: -1 2
file4: -4 4
file5: 0 -1
file6: 0 -1
I want to retrive 2, since 2 is the value corresponding to 4 which is the max value of the first column and each file.
Any idea what is the best way to do it?
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