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yes its homework, i am an absolute unix beginner so no nothing.

if you were able to tell me how i would go about approaching this kind of question because i genuinely have no idea :s that would be...

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...

thanks for your help.

this gives an error - cp: cannot copy a directory, 'bf', into itself, 'bf/bf' and the command puts a folder bf in the newly created bf folder.

what needs changing?

I am new to unix so this is probably a pretty basic question.

I am trying to write several commands on one line that creates a directory called bf in the current directory, then copy all files...