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qrange

04-07-2012 06:42 PM

find largest number in file?

I need to filter output of rar archive listing, to find the largest file in it.
whats the simplest way to do it?
thanks.

sycamorex

04-07-2012 07:06 PM

Try the following:

Code:

du -a ./*.rar | sort -n -r | head -n 1

grail

04-08-2012 12:47 AM

Did the above help or were you looking for the largest file inside the archive?

qrange

04-09-2012 03:12 AM

no, I was looking for largest file inside archive., filtering the output of: rar l archive.rar

grail

04-09-2012 03:40 AM

So maybe you can show us where you are stuck? Which rar command are you currently using to examine the archive?

qrange

04-09-2012 06:39 AM

rar l archive.rar

hmm, it seems that combining it in

Code:

rar l archive.rar | sort -n -r | head -n 1

does the trick, thanks.

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