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02-08-2009

moonbaby

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find max number

Hi, i have a file with numbers in it and i was wondering if there's a script i could use to find the max number and have that printed to a new file?

example a.txt

18
26
47
34
27

so find the max number in a.txt and print it to b.txt.

Thanks!

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