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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Longest word in a file Post 302607935 by scotty85 on Thursday 15th of March 2012 05:53:03 PM
Old 03-15-2012
Longest word in a file
I am trying to write a command on just one line, i.e seperated by ';' and '|' etc, that finds the number of characters in the longest word of a file, preferably using the 'tr' and 'wc' commands.

i no that wc shows the number of lines words and characters in a file but im not sure how to use it to find the longest word???

Any help much appreciated, thanks.
Last edited by scotty85; 03-15-2012 at 07:00 PM..
 

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