Does anyone know where I can download a tool that will allow me to search a folder of 'text files' of any extension (could be .txt or any other name but they contain text) and display result of the number of rows in the text file that i choose?

Example file.info

Hello my name is Brian
This is a 'text' file
Can you print me
Thanks for reading

the tool will allow me to search by the number of rows i choose. if i chose 4 then file.info would be displayed because it has 4 rows.

Figured i'd do in shell, but i still have one more problem. doing in shell leads me to this:

Wc "/directory*.*"

which does the job, but how could i move those files whose # of rows = # (# is the number of rows in the file) into another directory?

that's what i am looking for.
thanks

anyone?

it's simple enough to do in Vb, VbScript or as a .net app.

Is it to run on a webserver (web programming being the primary focus of this forum), or a desktop?

So, let me understand.

You want to go to a folder, and display the names of files in that folder that contain the specified number of rows (lines).

Here is a script.

 
# Script rows.txt
# Input arguments
# folder - the full path of the folder.
# rows - the number of lines to match
 
var str folder ; var int rows
 
# Get a list of files in that folder.
var str list ; lf -n "*" $folder > $list
 
# Go thru the list of files.
while ($list <> "")
do
 
    # Get the next file.
    var str file ; lex "1" $list > $file
 
    # Read the file contents into a string varaible.
    var string content ; cat $file > $content
 
    # Count the number of lines in $content
    var int count ; set $count = { sen $count }
 
    # If the count is same as our input argument rows, echo the file name.
    if ($count == $rows)
        echo $file
    endif
 
done

Script is in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ). To try, save the script as C:\Scripts\rows.txt, start biterscripting, enter the following command.

script "C:\Scripts\rows.txt" folder("C:\somefolder") rows(4)

Above command will display all file names that contain 4 rows/lines in folder C:\somefolder.

Jenni