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unless I'm missing something, you have over-complicated this.
sort the 2 files together, sorting on the numeric, then in a subsequent step, copy the first record (only).

snowburn wrote:unless I'm missing something, you have over-complicated this.
sort the 2 files together, sorting on the numeric, then in a subsequent step, copy the first record (only).

This will not provide the output the OP requested. Please re-read the original post. There are 2 input files AND 2 output files...