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Show lines where column 3 is greater than 100.

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Section: awk Filtering and Aggregation

Print rows matching a condition

bash
bash
awk '$3 > 100 {print $0}' metrics.txt
Explanation

Awk's pattern-action style is ideal for tabular filtering.

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