Longest line in a file
I'm looking for a simple way to find the length of the longest line in a file. Ideally, it would be a simple bash shell command instead of a script.
Solution 1:
Using wc (GNU coreutils) 7.4:
wc -L filename
gives:
101 filename
Solution 2:
awk '{print length, $0}' Input_file |sort -nr|head -1
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