Longest line using awk

Question

Can someone show, how to use awk command to identify the longest line in a text file.

Thanks

Answer 1

To print the longest line:

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awk 'length > m { m = length; a = $0 } END { print a }' input-file

To simply identify the longest line by line number:

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awk 'length > m { m = length; a = NR } END { print a }' input-file