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Re: New feature for 'wc': Filter lines by character count
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Eric Blake |
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Re: New feature for 'wc': Filter lines by character count |
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Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:13:35 -0600 |
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On 04/03/2014 08:51 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> While wc would be a place to add it if we were going to integrate this,
> I'm thinking the functionality is a bit too specialized to add.
> Existing tools can do this adequately I think. Consider:
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> awk 'length($0) != 140' < log.txt | wc -l
Or even shorter:
grep -vc '^.\{140\}$' log.txt
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