Longest line

Write A Shell Script To Find The Longest line In A Given File

Shell Script:


clear
l=`cat me.txt | wc -l`
echo "Content of the file:"
cat me.txt
echo
long=`cat me.txt|head -1|wc -c`
x=1

for((i=2;i<=$l;i++))
do
str=`cat me.txt | head -$i | tail -1`
w=`echo $str | wc -c`
if [ $w -gt $long ]
then
long=$w
x=$i
fi
done

cat me.txt|head -$x|tail -1

OUTPUT:

[admin@localhost ~]$ sh longestline.sh 
Content of the file:
i am xyz
i read in vit
computer science department i kk
xyz is my name
i am xyz
xyz xyz xyz xyx xyz

computer science department i kk