Re: Finding & printing the longest line

[John H Darrah <jhd giddens com>]

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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