Using awk to select rows with a specific value in column greater than x - awk

Question

I tried to use awk to select all rows with a value greater than 98 in the third column. In the output, only lines between 98 - 98.99... were selected and lines with a value more than 98.99 not.
I would like to extract all lines with a value greater than 98 including 99, 100 and so on.
Here my code and my input format:
for i in *input.file; do awk '$3>98' $i >{i/input./output.}; done
A chr11 98.80 83 1 0 2 84
B chr7 95.45 22 1 0 40 61
C chr7 88.89 27 0 1 46 72
D chr6 100.00 20 0 0 1 20
Expected Output
A chr11 98.80 83 1 0 2 84
D chr6 100.00 20 0 0 1 20

Answer 1

Okay, if you have a series of files, *input.file and you want to select those lines where $3 > 98 and then write the values to the same prefix, but with output.file as the rest of the filename, you can use:
awk '$3 > 98 {
match (FILENAME,/input.file$/)
print $0 > substr(FILENAME,1,RSTART-1) "output.file"
}' *input.file
Which uses match to find the index where input.file begins and then uses substr to get the part of the filename before that and appends "output.file" to the substring for the final output filename.
match() sets the RSTART value to the index where input.file begins in the current filename which is then used by substr truncate the current filename at that index. See GNU awk String Functions for complete details.
For exmaple, if you had input files:
$ ls -1 *input.file
v1input.file
v2input.file
Both with your example content:
$ cat v1input.file
A chr11 98.80 83 1 0 2 84
B chr7 95.45 22 1 0 40 61
C chr7 88.89 27 0 1 46 72
D chr6 100.00 20 0 0 1 20
Running the awk command above would results in two output files:
$ ls -1 *output.file
v1output.file
v2output.file
Containing the records where the third-field was greater than 98:
$ cat v1output.file
A chr11 98.80 83 1 0 2 84
D chr6 100.00 20 0 0 1 20