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Hi, been searching Google for like an hour and I doubt I got the right keywords so might as well ask here.

What I need:
Before:
Article1.txt 564
Article2.txt 799
Article3.txt 349
Article4.txt 452

* Separate files over 400 wordcount *

After:
Article1.txt 564
Article2.txt 799
Article4.txt 452

New Folder
Article3.txt 349

Hi,

A little bashscript can help here:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
wc -w Article*.txt |while read WORDS FILE
do
   [ $WORDS -le 400 ] && mv $FILE /path/to/new/folder
done

A little enchancement of cero's bashscript

Code:

#!/bin/bash
wc -w Article*.txt | head -n-1 | while read WORDS FILE
do
   [ $WORDS -le 400 ] && mv $FILE /path/to/new/folder
done

The script will not try to move the "total" file and get the following error:

Code:

mv: cannot stat `total': No such file or directory

Hi,
follow this code:
ls -l Article*.txt > file
for i `cat file`
do
file=i
count=`cat file|wc -w`
if [ $count -ge 400 ]; then
move $file1 dir/$file
fi
done