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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> This is way OT, but I hope someone here can give me a quick answer: |
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> I have a text-file. Individual lines of it run from 10 to several |
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> thousand characters in length. Is there a simple* command that allows |
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> me to only display the lines that are, say, at least 300 characters |
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> long? |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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> W |
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> * simple of course includes appropriate incantations of sed/awk/perl/etc |
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> -- |
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> Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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> Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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> et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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Hi, |
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Try something like |
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sed '/\w\{300,\}/!d' file |
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This should give you lines that have more than 300 word like |
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characters. If you put number after "," you may define the max number. |
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and you can change \w to match your needs => . . |
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Best regards |
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Petri |
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