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Old 02-02-2015
Help with listing file name containing particular text and count of lines with 10 characters.
Hi,
I've 2 queries.

I need to list files which doesn't contain a particular text in the content. For example say, I need to list files which doesn't contain string "abc" from all files ending with *.bad. How can I do that?

Also, I want to display number of lines in a file which has atleast 10 characters in a line.

For Example: File1.txt
The Terminal
Blood Diamond
Gravity

Now the count of lines in File1.txt should return only 2.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.
# 2  
Old 02-02-2015
Hello Gangadhar Reddy,

Could you please try following code and let me know if this helps, I have used BASH and it worked fine for me.
Code:
ls -lhtr | awk -vs="abc" -vs1="'" -vs2="\"" '{if($NF ~ /.*bad/ && $NF !~ s){print "awk " s1 "{if(length($0)>=10){A++}} END{{if(A){print FILENAME " s2 " has " s2 " A " s2 " lines more than 10 characters"s2  ";A=0} else {print FILENAME " s2 " has 0 lines with 10 char or more " s2 "}}}" s1 " " $NF}}' | sh

I have made some some test files and it gave me following results.
Code:
test1.bad has 0 lines with 10 char or more
TEST.bad has 0 lines with 10 char or more
test2.bad has 4 lines more than 10 characters

Where I have created testabc.bad, test12abc.bad and they were NOT considered as per your requirements.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Adding non oneliner form of solution.
Code:
ls -lhtr | awk -vs="abc" -vs1="'" -vs2="\"" '
                                                {if($NF ~ /.*bad/ && $NF !~ s){
                                                                                print "awk " s1 "{ \
                                                                                                        if(length($0)>=10){ \
                                                                                                                                A++ \
                                                                                                                          } \
                                                                                                 } \
                                             END{ \
                                                                              {if(A)             { \
                                                                                                        print FILENAME " s2 " has " s2 " A " s2 " lines more than 10 characters"s2  ";A=0 \
                                                                                                 } \
                                                                               else              { \
                                                                                                        print FILENAME " s2 " has 0 lines with 10 char or more " s2 " \
                                                                                                 } \
                                                                              } \
                                                                              }" s1 " " $NF
                                                }
                                                }
                                            ' | sh


Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 02-02-2015 at 02:22 AM.. Reason: Added a non oneliner form of solution
# 3  
Old 02-02-2015
First question: As you specify you want the content checked, not the file name itself, try
Code:
grep -lv abc *.bad

. Read man grep for further info.
Second qu.: Try
Code:
awk 'length >= 10 {CNT[FILENAME]++} END {for (c in CNT) print c, CNT[c]}' *.bad

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