Re: Find a string length

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From: Bernard Chandler
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 00:00

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ulianov@csm.ro wrote:

> find -name *whatever-name* | while read FILE
>  do
>    A=`strings $FILE | cut -c31- | sort -u`;
>    if [ ! -z $A ]; then
>      echo $FILE
>    fi
>  done
>
> Hope this will work,
> Vladimir
>
> Deborah Lorraine wrote:
>
> > I have a group of files that I want to test if they contain any strings
> > over 30 characters long...does anyone know of a way to do that?
> > Thanks,
> > Debi
> > dlorraine@ucdavis.edu

that is a nice piece of syntax. the logic is even better.


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Bernie Chandler
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