Como encontrar Max e Min na festa da coluna

#min
cat file.dat | sort -nk3,3 | head -1 
							#this will find minumum of column 3
#max 
cat file.dat | sort -nk3,3 | tail -1
						#this will find maximum of column 3 
#to find in column 2 , use -nk2,2 
Hutch Polecat