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Script to list dir path and count characters?

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Re: Script to list dir path and count characters?

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May 1st, 2008
Hey There,

You can print out the name of the found file by printing out $0 and the number of characters by printing NF -- You'll be doing both within the awk statement and it's important to print NF for the number. If you print $NF you'll get the value of the last field.

Hope that helps

, Mike
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