====== SED - Delete - Delete all lines of a file with N characters ======

<code bash>
sed -in '/^.\{9\}/d'
</code>

<WRAP info>
**NOTE:**  May be impacted by the file encoding.

Ensure that the issued sed command is UTF-8 encoded

**file filename** should say UTF-8 Unicode text.

Alternatively, change your terminal and shell settings to UTF-8

**printf à | wc -c** must say 2, not 1.

**locale** should list "UTF-8" or "utf8" in the LC_CTYPE line.


**iconv -f ^Ctin1 -t utf-8 filename | sed '/^.\{4\}/d' | iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1**

</WRAP>

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<code bash>
sed -s -i -r '/^.{9}$/d' ./*.txt
</code>

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===== Use AWK =====

<code bash>
awk -v n=5 '{ line = $0; gsub("[^[:graph:]]", "") } length >= 23 { print line }'
</code>

<WRAP info>
**NOTE:**  Anything over 23 characters it will delete ...you can change 23 to any value.
</WRAP>