verify arbitrary column

[userand]

Hello,

I would like to check the values of the columns of a file, which numbers are arbitrary... For example these are the three lines (records) of a file

1 1 1 2 2 2
1 1 1 2 3
1 1 3 2 3 2 1 1

In this case I would like to print out those records, in which value of every column is not greater than 2, i.e. int this case the first one.

I would like to figure out a standard method, which is working even if I have thousands of lines, which has non-constant number of columns..

Thanks in advance!

 

[PHV]

A starting point:

awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;++i)if($i>2)next}1' /path/to/input

Hope This Helps, PH.
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