How to find the shortest word on a text file
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So i have all these words in a text file:
dfasdfasdf
adsgad
fghjast
hdasfh
adfhadfn
And i have to display the number of chars of the smallest word without using the 'awk' and 'sed' commands...
I have tried all variants of wc but it works with the full text file and not only line per line.
shell awk sed grep wc
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So i have all these words in a text file:
dfasdfasdf
adsgad
fghjast
hdasfh
adfhadfn
And i have to display the number of chars of the smallest word without using the 'awk' and 'sed' commands...
I have tried all variants of wc but it works with the full text file and not only line per line.
shell awk sed grep wc
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What do you mean by smallest? The shortest? Can you usesort?
– choroba
14 mins ago
Yes, the shortest one. I have used sort but it only sorts me the words by alphabetical order.
– TOY
12 mins ago
mapfile -t arr < yourtextfile; for f in "$arr[@]"; do printf '%sn' "$#f"; done | sort -n |head -n1or using thereadas follows:while read -r line; do printf '%sn' "$#line"; done < fff | sort -n | head -n1
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7 mins ago
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So i have all these words in a text file:
dfasdfasdf
adsgad
fghjast
hdasfh
adfhadfn
And i have to display the number of chars of the smallest word without using the 'awk' and 'sed' commands...
I have tried all variants of wc but it works with the full text file and not only line per line.
shell awk sed grep wc
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So i have all these words in a text file:
dfasdfasdf
adsgad
fghjast
hdasfh
adfhadfn
And i have to display the number of chars of the smallest word without using the 'awk' and 'sed' commands...
I have tried all variants of wc but it works with the full text file and not only line per line.
shell awk sed grep wc
shell awk sed grep wc
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What do you mean by smallest? The shortest? Can you usesort?
– choroba
14 mins ago
Yes, the shortest one. I have used sort but it only sorts me the words by alphabetical order.
– TOY
12 mins ago
mapfile -t arr < yourtextfile; for f in "$arr[@]"; do printf '%sn' "$#f"; done | sort -n |head -n1or using thereadas follows:while read -r line; do printf '%sn' "$#line"; done < fff | sort -n | head -n1
– Valentin Bajrami
7 mins ago
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What do you mean by smallest? The shortest? Can you usesort?
– choroba
14 mins ago
Yes, the shortest one. I have used sort but it only sorts me the words by alphabetical order.
– TOY
12 mins ago
mapfile -t arr < yourtextfile; for f in "$arr[@]"; do printf '%sn' "$#f"; done | sort -n |head -n1or using thereadas follows:while read -r line; do printf '%sn' "$#line"; done < fff | sort -n | head -n1
– Valentin Bajrami
7 mins ago
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What do you mean by smallest? The shortest? Can you use
sort?– choroba
14 mins ago
What do you mean by smallest? The shortest? Can you use
sort?– choroba
14 mins ago
Yes, the shortest one. I have used sort but it only sorts me the words by alphabetical order.
– TOY
12 mins ago
Yes, the shortest one. I have used sort but it only sorts me the words by alphabetical order.
– TOY
12 mins ago
mapfile -t arr < yourtextfile; for f in "$arr[@]"; do printf '%sn' "$#f"; done | sort -n |head -n1 or using the read as follows: while read -r line; do printf '%sn' "$#line"; done < fff | sort -n | head -n1– Valentin Bajrami
7 mins ago
mapfile -t arr < yourtextfile; for f in "$arr[@]"; do printf '%sn' "$#f"; done | sort -n |head -n1 or using the read as follows: while read -r line; do printf '%sn' "$#line"; done < fff | sort -n | head -n1– Valentin Bajrami
7 mins ago
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Using parameter expansion, you can get the length of a variable contents:
$#variable
Just read the file line by line and remember the shortest word:
while read word ; do
: $shortest:=$word
if [ $#word -lt $#shortest ] ; then
shortest=$word
fi
done < "$1"
echo "$shortest"
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up vote
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Using parameter expansion, you can get the length of a variable contents:
$#variable
Just read the file line by line and remember the shortest word:
while read word ; do
: $shortest:=$word
if [ $#word -lt $#shortest ] ; then
shortest=$word
fi
done < "$1"
echo "$shortest"
answered 6 secs ago
choroba
25.3k44269
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Using parameter expansion, you can get the length of a variable contents:
$#variable
Just read the file line by line and remember the shortest word:
while read word ; do
: $shortest:=$word
if [ $#word -lt $#shortest ] ; then
shortest=$word
fi
done < "$1"
echo "$shortest"
answered 6 secs ago
choroba
25.3k44269
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up vote
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Using parameter expansion, you can get the length of a variable contents:
$#variable
Just read the file line by line and remember the shortest word:
while read word ; do
: $shortest:=$word
if [ $#word -lt $#shortest ] ; then
shortest=$word
fi
done < "$1"
echo "$shortest"
answered 6 secs ago
choroba
25.3k44269
Using parameter expansion, you can get the length of a variable contents:
$#variable
Just read the file line by line and remember the shortest word:
while read word ; do
: $shortest:=$word
if [ $#word -lt $#shortest ] ; then
shortest=$word
fi
done < "$1"
echo "$shortest"
answered 6 secs ago
choroba
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answered 6 secs ago
choroba
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What do you mean by smallest? The shortest? Can you use
sort?– choroba
14 mins ago
Yes, the shortest one. I have used sort but it only sorts me the words by alphabetical order.
– TOY
12 mins ago
mapfile -t arr < yourtextfile; for f in "$arr[@]"; do printf '%sn' "$#f"; done | sort -n |head -n1or using thereadas follows:while read -r line; do printf '%sn' "$#line"; done < fff | sort -n | head -n1– Valentin Bajrami
7 mins ago