I have a flat file with a list of URL's I want to spider. I only want to check the ones of a certain length though. I am unaware of any way to cut the shorter urls from the list via bash. Would it be possible to create a simple for do loop to remove lines in the file that contain less than 5 forward slashed? "/"
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Use `grep` to select all lines not matching a patterm with at least 5 slashes. – Jim Garrison Jul 12 '16 at 20:38
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You can use this to count your `/`s in bash: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16679640/1716866. – leekaiinthesky Jul 12 '16 at 20:44
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You can simply to:
grep '://.*/.*/.*/.*/.*/' urls.txt
This will only match lines that have at least 5 slashes.
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Use
grep '//.*/.*/.*/' filename
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