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Old 05-03-2011
Count the number of words in some subset of file and disregard others

Hi All,

I have some 6000 text files in a directory. My files are named like 1.txt, 2.txt 3.txt and so on until 6000.txt. I want to count the "number of words" in only first 3000 of them. Any suggestions?

I know
Code:
wc -w

can count the number of words in a text file. I am using Red Hat Linux.
# 2  
Old 05-03-2011
Try this

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

for i in `seq 3000`
do
  wc -w $i.txt
done

regards,
Ahamed
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Old 05-03-2011
Could this help you? What is size of your file ?
Code:
i=1;while (( i <= 3000 )); do wc -w $i".txt"; i=`expr $i + 1`;done

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Old 05-03-2011
Well, the size is not fixed its variable and so are the number of words. Smilie
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