On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:01:02 -0500 Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.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