McKown, John wrote:
Is there a handy utility that I've missed which will tell me the longest
line in a text file? I'm looking at something that I could use to
determine if a text file should be printed in portrait or landscape
mode, depending on the longest line length.


Just did that today ;-)

use wc -L

mark

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