[H-GEN] Shell script problem.

[Andrae Muys]

Ok, so I'm rather shocking at shell scripts :).  So far I've been able to
reduce a massive log file to a series of number pairs (representing the
line number (grep -n :) and an error number (target)).  What I need to do
is return the line number of the smallest error.  The problem is that the
number is a float.  ie.

14 3.63234e+07
28 3.54324e+07
36 3.34564e+07
52 3.52345e+07

Now short of writing a C program to do the final step, can anyone help?

(I'd work it out for myself, except it isn't _my_ problem, I'm just
helping out a friend and I don't have the time to stuff around with it
anymore)

Andrae

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