On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:57:28 +0000 Etaoin Shrdlu <shr...@unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
> 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 Oh, and obviously grep '.\{300\}' file perl -ne 'print if /.{300}/' file