Rich’s pattern doesn’t work for me, but this does:
```
\A([^\r]*\r){N}\z
```
Details:
```
match:
\A - the beginning of the file
( ){N} - followed by exactly N of:
[^\r]* - zero or more non-linebreak characters
\r - followed by a linebreak
\z - followed by the end of the file
```
Note that this assumes that all files end in a linebreak. If they might
not, you need a slightly more complicated expression:
```
\A([^\r]*\r){M}[^\r]+\Z
```
Where `M` is one _less_ than your target number of lines.
Details:
```
match:
\A - the beginning of the file
( ){M} - followed by exactly M of:
[^\r]* - zero or more non-linebreak characters
\r - followed by a linebreak
[^\r]+ - followed by one or more non-linebreak
characters
\Z - followed by the end of the file OR a
trailing newline
```
That was fun. Thanks, all. :)
-sam
On 11 Dec 2018, at 10:45, Rich Siegel wrote:
On 12/10/18 at 7:26 AM, [email protected] (Philippe Carly)
wrote:
More specifically, I have a directory which contains a large number
of subdirectories, each containing (among other things) a
fileinfo.php file.
I now that this fileinfo.php should have N lines. And I am trying to
locate files that have more or less than N lines to search for
potential problems.
If I am understand your description correctly, something like this
should work:
- search for:
^.*?\n{XXX} -- replace the "XXX" with the desired number of lines
- turn on "Exclude Matches"
- run your multi-file search.
This will return all files that don't have XXX lines in them.
You can add a file filter to only search "fileinfo.php" files to
further narrow things down.
R.
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