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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed or awk grep, that will only get the line with more characters. Post 303037992 by invinzin21 on Tuesday 20th of August 2019 11:40:54 AM
Old 08-20-2019
sed or awk grep, that will only get the line with more characters.

Is there a command for sed and awk that will only sort the line with more characters?

Code:
#cat file
123
12345
12
asdgjljhhho
bac
ss

Output:
asdgjljhhho


#cat file2
11.2
12345.00
21.222
12345678.10

Output:
12345678.10

--- Post updated at 12:40 AM ---

Closing this now. I figured it out.
Thanks
 

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JOIN(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   JOIN(1)

NAME
join - relational database operator SYNOPSIS
join [-an] [-e s] [-o list] [-tc] file1 file2 DESCRIPTION
Join forms, on the standard output, a join of the two relations specified by the lines of file1 and file2. If file1 is `-', the standard input is used. File1 and file2 must be sorted in increasing ASCII collating sequence on the fields on which they are to be joined, normally the first in each line. There is one line in the output for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 that have identical join fields. The output line normally con- sists of the common field, then the rest of the line from file1, then the rest of the line from file2. Fields are normally separated by blank, tab or newline. In this case, multiple separators count as one, and leading separators are dis- carded. These options are recognized: -an In addition to the normal output, produce a line for each unpairable line in file n, where n is 1 or 2. -e s Replace empty output fields by string s. -o list Each output line comprises the fields specified in list, each element of which has the form n.m, where n is a file number and m is a field number. -tc Use character c as a separator (tab character). Every appearance of c in a line is significant. SEE ALSO
sort(1), comm(1), awk(1). BUGS
With default field separation, the collating sequence is that of sort -b; with -t, the sequence is that of a plain sort. The conventions of join, sort, comm, uniq, look and awk(1) are wildly incongruous. 7th Edition April 29, 1985 JOIN(1)
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