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Old 06-10-2015
Filter all the lines with minimum specified length of words of a text file
Hi

Can someone tell me which script will work best (in terms of speed and simplicity to write and run) for a large text file to filter all the lines with a minimum specified length of words ? A sample script with be definitely of great help !!! Thanks in advance. Smilie
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Old 06-10-2015
A CLEAR statement of what you are trying to do, a sample input file (in CODE tags), and the output you want to get from that sample input file (in CODE tags) would make it a LOT easier to help you. Without that, I could suggest cat and cp as great starting points for your script.
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Old 06-11-2015
Filter all the lines with minimum specified length of words of a text file
The content of the sample file to be filtered is :
=============================

Code:
This is a test file.
This is
This
That 
That is 
I
You
That is a sample.

============================
And the sample output should look like as given below if I filter sentences more than or equal to 2 (two) words in a line.

Code:
This is a test file.
This is
That is 
That is a sample.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-11-2015 at 10:46 PM.. Reason: Change HTML tags to CODE tags.
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Old 06-11-2015
Code:
awk 'NF >= 2' filename

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Old 06-12-2015
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Originally Posted by my_Perl
Hi

Can someone tell me which script will work best (in terms of speed and simplicity to write and run) for a large text file to filter all the lines with a minimum specified length of words ? A sample script with be definitely of great help !!! Thanks in advance. Smilie
length of words => number of words
But, as one can see, one example input and an expected output, and the matter is clear!
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