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Hello people.

I need some help to do this:

I've got some files that i need to count the caracters of filenames.

20080209_2000591574_237004076372.xml
20080202_1360584_267002636042.xml

The minimum is 15 . If some file with less must move them to another directory.

Obviously these files always have different names.

I was doing this but only i get them names, bus i can't do the count:

lista=`ls`

for file in $lista
do

new_name=`echo $file |awk '{print substr($0,1,length($0))}'`


done

Can anyone help me ?

Regards

how about:

Code:

 echo 20080209_2000591574_237004076372.xml | wc -c
      37

Code:

for f in *.xml;do ((${#f}<15))&&mv "$f" other_dir;done

If you want to exclude the extension and it's not fixed:

Code:

for f in *;do 
  fn="${f%.}"
  ((${#fn}<15))&&mv "$f" other_dir
done

Hy Titalus

i made this script with you example:

lista=`ls`

for file in $lista
do
new_name=`echo $file |awk '{print length($0)}'`

if [ $new_name < 15 ]

then
cp $file $DIR_TESTE
fi
done;

But it gaves this error:

A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
./arruma.sh[15]: 15: 0403-016 Cannot find or open the file.

What's the problem ?