I would be grateful if someone could help me. I am trying to write a .sh script in UNIX.
I have the following code;
This produces the following output;
What I would like to do is only print the longest length of string, in this case '6'. (I will also be storing the single result in a variable for later use). I have experimented with awk & gawk etc and I'm really struggling. The above code is a very simple breakdown of a more complicated problem, but if someone could solve the above it would make a big difference.
Appologies if this is very straight forward, quite new to this.
Regards
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I should of added that i need to keep the for loop, hopefully there is a way of doing it within this kind of loop.
Last edited by Scott; 11-09-2011 at 01:23 PM..
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
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