On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Eric Sisler wrote:
> Ok, stupid question of the day.
>
> I'm trying to find & print (dump to a file) the longest
> line in a text file. I've been able to determine the
> *length* of the longest line by using the 'wc -L' command,
> but is there any way using find or some other command to
> *output* the longest line?
>
Like:
gawk 'length > O { O=length; L=$0 }; END { print O,L }' your_file
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