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I want to loop through all the .TXT files in a directory and get the length of the first line of each one.
find /path -name "*.txt" -exec head -n1 {} \;
will print the first line of each file, now how do I print the LENGTH of the first line of each file? like "300" for 300 characters long.
This is good. Now I just need a condition if the length from wc is equal to say 400 to do something. How do I tell this to do a sed command if the length of the first line is 400 characters?
PHP Code:
while read i; do head -n1 "$i" | wc -c done < <(find . -name \*.php)
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