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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sorting words based on length Post 302578923 by yairpg on Saturday 3rd of December 2011 04:14:06 AM
Old 12-03-2011
Sorting words based on length

i need to write a bash script that recive a list of varuables
kaka pele ronaldo beckham zidane messi rivaldo gerrard platini
i need the program to print the longest word of the list.
word in the output appears on a separate line and word order in the output is in the order Llachsicografi costs.
for example:
the in put is:
kaka pele ronaldo beckham zidane messi rivaldo gerrard platini
and the output is :
beckham
gerrard
platini
rivaldo
ronaldo

thank you,
for helping yair
 

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british-english(5)						   Users' Manual						british-english(5)

NAME
british-english - a list of English words DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/british-english is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line. FILES
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/. /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen /usr/share/dict/<language> file. /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software should refer to the system word list. See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently- chosen word list. The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding. SEE ALSO
ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. HISTORY
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources. The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words. For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist. AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori- ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>. Debian 16 June 2003 british-english(5)
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