From: vanekl
Subject: Re: job question
Date: 
Message-ID: <fpln5i$ieq$1@aioe.org>
········@yahoo.es wrote:
>  I think some lisp hacker can give me some opinion about a
> telecommuting job. (Sofware engineer).
> 
>  At the end of the requirement they make a challenge:
> 
>    In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a
> muliple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file.
> Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.
> 
>  (google it)
> 
>  This is my proposed solution:
> 
> (progn     (if  (= 1 1) (list 'this 'make 'me 'suspicious) (list 'what
> 'do 'you 'think))
> '(list 'bye (or 'wisdom-for-all 'google-group)))


gawk '{print length($0), $0;}'
"do/you/really/wanna/work/with/a/bunch/of/DAes?" |
sort -n | tail -3 | cut --delimiter=' '
-f 1 --complement > /dev/null