Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:57:28 +0000
Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:01:02 -0500
> Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU> wrote:
>
> > This is way OT, but I hope someone here can give me a quick answer:
> >
> > I have a text-file. Individual lines of it run from 10 to several
> > thousand characters in length. Is there a simple* command that allows
> > me to only display the lines that are, say, at least 300 characters
> > long?
>
> awk 'length >= 300' file
>
> sed -n '/.\{300\}/p' file

Oh, and obviously

grep '.\{300\}' file

perl -ne 'print if /.{300}/' file