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Author Topic: how to delete text files that have less than x lines  (Read 3818 times)

kalos

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how to delete text files that have less than x lines
« on: September 11, 2007, 08:15 AM »
hello

how can I delete all the text files that have less than 3 lines inside a folder?

thanks

matt_man22

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Re: how to delete text files that have less than x lines
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2007, 01:20 PM »
I assume you are using Windows?

I know in linux it is a simple "wc -l" command.  Maybe that could help in some way.  Not sure how to do it in Windows.

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Re: how to delete text files that have less than x lines
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2007, 04:39 PM »
There are unix-tools-for-windows packs available and there are wc.exe included.

With plain DOS commands this is a lill bit difficult,
maybe "for /f" could help, loop this three times and if errorlevel >0 then delete this file <???>

Real solution would be an AutoHotkey script .... but you have asked this there already, so i will wait what happens.