Mark Perry wrote:
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
Talk about a preemptive bid!
I was thinking of other ideas, maybe redefining the question to "Are
there any lines longer than 80 chars" and the constructing a regex to
match one. eg '/.*/{81}'
I'll go back to sleep.
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John
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