count how may values are larger than specific number which however is already in specific line in a different file

Question

I have two files

First file, namely file1, contains three lines with the following values

   17.503766
   17.252752
   17.348948

Second file, namely frame1 contains following values

  38.730
  17.270
  24.370
  45.180
  46.510

Target is to count how many of those values from frame1 file are larger than value which is presented in line1 of file1.

So will be something similar to below however I don't know how to set this as a criterion

awk '($1>??){ ++count } END{ print count }' 'frame1' > 'file-new'

Answer 1

$ awk 'NR==FNR{ if (FNR==1) tgt=$1; next } $1 > tgt{ ++count } END{ print count+0 }' file1 frame1
4

With GNU awk you can replace:

if (FNR==1) tgt=$1; next

with the following for efficiency:

tgt=$1; nextfile

Answer 2

Tried with below command

#Below Command fetches highest value from file1

k=awk 'BEGIN{sum=0}($1 > sum){sum=$1}END{print sum}' file1

#Below command will display value from file2 which is greater  when compared with file1


awk -v k="$k" '$1 > k {print $1}' file2