Re: Q for Unix guru's

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 07/26/03

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    On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:42:10 +0000 (UTC), Charles Demas <demas@TheWorld.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    > In article <594f6d6f.0307261059.17f0ceb9@posting.google.com>,
    > Spider-X <yedilw@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >>what combination of grep sed cat and wc would I have to use to count
    >>the number of lines in a file that exceed 50 characters?
    >
    > grep and wc
    >
    >>If this is
    >>easy enough, then how do I print all the lines that exceed this limit
    >>to its own file?
    >
    > awk 'length > 50' infile > outfile
    >
    > This sounds so much like homework!
    >
    >
    > Chuck Demas
    >

    Doesn't it....

    sed -n '/................................................../p' infile > outfile

    Looks silly, but works great. Less resources and faster than awk too :-)

    Alan 

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