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Old 01-20-2009
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I was proposed with the following problem:

The file 'numbers' contains a list of numbers. Write a command to place the
largest one of those numbers in the file 'largest' (there should be nothing
else in that file). Do not use the 'head' command in your answer.


I think if i used the sort -n numbers, it would sort the file, however what command other than head will help me extract the first line of the file? Smilie Help would be very much appreciated Smilie
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Old 01-21-2009
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