bash, find nearest next value, forward and backward

Question

I have a data.txt file

1    2     3    4      5       6        7   
cat data.txt
13 245 1323 10.1111 10.2222 60.1111 60.22222
13 133 2325 11.2222 11.333  61.         


        

Answer 1

For the first part:

awk -v v1="11.6667" '$4>v1 {print $4;exit}' file
12.3333

And second part:

awk -v v2="62.9997" '$6>v2 {print p;exit} {p=$6}' file
62.3333

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Both in one go:

awk -v v1="11.6667" -v v2="62.9997" '$4>v1 && !p1 {p1=$4} $6>v2 && !p2 {p2=p} {p=$6} END {print p1,p2}' file
12.3333 62.3333