Answer Posted / vipul dalwala

In continuation to above answer.

If you want to write a script in more generic way.

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo "$0: numbers are not given" >&2
exit 1
fi
LARGEST=$(echo $* | xargs -n1 | sort -nr | tail -1)
echo "$LARGEST is largest number"

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