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shell program to list all files in directory

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Need a shell program to find smallest and largest string(in respect to string length) among list of 5 strings given by user.

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Martijn Cielen (mcielen) said : 		#1

can you further explain what exactly would be different from using ls?

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Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) said : 		#2

This sounds a lot like a homework assignment -- is the whole idea to write a shell script that does not use any other programs, only builtin shell commands? In that case, perhaps

#!/bin/sh
for i in $@ ; do echo $i/* ; done

is a possible answer to this sort of 'problem'?

Jonathan

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sowmya rao (sowmya-raohebbar) said : 		#3

no idea on applying commands in shell program.

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sowmya rao (sowmya-raohebbar) said : 		#4

no idea on shell programs related to string... Please help

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