Hi Everyone,
I am trying to write a shell script that can find the longest phrase that appears at least twice in an online news article. The HTML has been parsed through an HTML parser, converted to XML and the article content extracted. I have put this article content in a text file to work... (24 Replies)
Hello everyone...
I need to find out, how to find longest line or possibly lines in several files which are arguments for script. The thing is, that I tried some possibilities before, but nothing worked correctly.
Example
when i use:
awk ' { if ( length > L ) { L=length ;s=$0 } }END{ print... (23 Replies)
Hi,
I want to find the length of each line(including all the characters, spaces etc.) in a file and check if all the lines are of same length using a ksh script. Please help. Thanks in advance. (7 Replies)
Hello all,
I need to find the longest string in a select field and print that field.
I have tried a few different methods and I always end up one step from where I need to be.
Methods thus far:
nawk '{if (length($1) > long) long=length($1); if(length($1)==long) print $1}'
The above... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I was going some trial and error to see if I can find the longest word in a text.
I was using Pipes because they are easier to use in this case.
I was stuck on this for a while so I thought I'll get some help with it.
I tried this code to separate all the words in a text in... (4 Replies)
I would be grateful if someone could help me. I am trying to write a .sh script in UNIX.
I have the following code;
User=john
User=james
User=ian
User=martin
for x in ${User}
do
print ${#x}
done
This produces the following output;
4
5
3
6 (12 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to get the length of the longest column in the entire file (because the length varies from one row to the other)
I was doing this at first to check how many fields I have for the first row:
awk '{print NF; exit}' file
Now, I can do this:
awk '{ if... (4 Replies)
Running below line gives 3957 as length of longest line in file 20121119_SRMNotes_init.dat
awk ' { if ( length > 3950 ) { x = length } }END{ print x }' 20121119_SRMNotes_init.dat
While wc -L 20121119_SRMNotes_init.dat gives output as 4329. Why is there a difference between these two commands.... (2 Replies)