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Old 04-16-2009
To find largest and shortest word in eld
I got a file called Album in that there is list of songs i want to find the Longest and shortest song name in field 2 ie ($2)....
Please help me with "awk"
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Old 04-16-2009
What have you tried? This sounds like homework.
# 3  
Old 04-17-2009
Code:
nawk '{
  if(NR==1){
    max=min=$2
   }
  else{
  l=length($2)
  max=(l>length(max))?$2:max
  min=(l<length(min))?$2:min
  }
}
END{
 print max
 print min
}' filename

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