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university

how do i write a shellscript which accepts some number of file names as arguments and outputs a single line containing only the name of the largest file not the longest file name.
for example assuming your script is in a file called my_script .sh an invocation might be:
$sh my_script.sh /etc/fstab /var/log/messages /etc/passwd
for which the output might be:
/var/log/messages
if that happens to be the largest of these three files.

Skrynesaver

#!/bin/bash
ls -lS $* | head -1|cut -d\  -f10

Note: the -S flag to ls is a GNU ls extension and may not work on other unices

Khannie

Lads....you're doing this punters homework!

MiCr0

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is this homework?

scotty_irish

google knows all. ask him. and why are you doing university assignments over the summer?

syklops

scotty_irish wrote: »

google knows all. ask him. and why are you doing university assignments over the summer?

Coz he failed his exams, and has to do repeats in August/September.

Galway K9

As annoyign as it sounds you wont learn anything from us tellign you, however i will provide a tutorial for shell scripting that is a good learnign resources.... http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

What i can recommend is looking up in google? shell script to find the largest files of 3 file entered, learn how to get bash to read in filenames as parameters, and echo the answer.

PrzemoF

university wrote: »

how do i write a shellscript which accepts some number of file names as arguments and outputs a single line containing only the name of the largest file not the longest file name.
for example assuming your script is in a file called my_script .sh an invocation might be:
$sh my_script.sh /etc/fstab /var/log/messages /etc/passwd
for which the output might be:
/var/log/messages
if that happens to be the largest of these three files.

post what you already wrote and then we can help

Capt'n Midnight

http://uni.xkcd.com - great command line learning tool

in ubuntu you can use dir , but ls gives prettier colours

Johnboy1951

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

http://uni.xkcd.com - great command line learning tool

in ubuntu you can use dir , but ls gives prettier colours

Try
l
ls
d
(LSD )

as well as dir.
Don't know if they are aliased on the Bunties ...