On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Saul Alanis <sdalano at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2 | foo | bar
> 4 | bar | foo
> 1 | bar | foo
> 3 | foo | bar
>


​Why is awk a reqirement?  Simply use the comand:
​sort -n YOURDATAFILEGOESHERE | tail -n 1 | cut -d\| -f1
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