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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - printing nth field based on parameter Post 302822669 by pamu on Tuesday 18th of June 2013 04:12:39 AM
Old 06-18-2013
I believe awk does support length function..

try

Code:
function calcmaxlen
{
 awk -v POS="$1" '{if(length($POS)>max){max=length($POS)}}END{print max}' $HOME/input.dat
}

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