From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:22:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4430CE.6060707@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110129150102.GA30755@math.princeton.edu>
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Am 29.01.2011 16:01, schrieb Willie Wong:
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> W
>
>
> * simple of course includes appropriate incantations of sed/awk/perl/etc
egrep '.{300,}'
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-29 15:01 [gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length Willie Wong
2011-01-29 14:57 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2011-01-29 15:08 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2011-01-29 15:41 ` Willie Wong
2011-01-29 15:17 ` Petri Rosenström
2011-01-29 15:22 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
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