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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK delimiting Post 27675 by peter.herlihy on Thursday 5th of September 2002 02:04:35 AM
Old 09-05-2002
Maybe a bit more clarity on what you're trying to do here....I took it differently to the others....

first file

name
date
time
time requested
approved

second file

john smith
20020808
12:00PM
12:01PM
Yes

Third File

comment for line 1
comment for line 2
comment for line 3
comment for line 4
comment for line 5



Then paste would work and you can specify your delimiter.
paste -s -d"," file1 file2 file3

Is this what you are after. Careful with awk...as there are spaces in your file and these will be treated as delimiters.
 

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NAME
pocount - Produces word counts and other statistics from a PO file. SYNOPSIS
pocount [--csv] [directory|file(s)] DESCRIPTION
pocount will count the number of strings and words in a PO file. If no files or directories argument are provided, pocount will recurse through all files from the current directory. Otherwise, it will recurse and count all files in the specified directory or in the specified PO files. OPTIONS
--csv changes the output format to CSV (Comma Seperated Values) for import into a spreadsheet. OUTPUT
In normal mode the following output is given: avmedia/source/viewer.po type strings words (source) words (translation) translated: 1 3 3 fuzzy: 0 0 n/a untranslated: 4 22 n/a Total: 5 25 3 review 1 3 n/a In CSV mode the following outut is shown: Filename, Translated Messages, Translated Source Words, Translated Target Words, Fuzzy Messages, Fuzzy Source Words, Untranslated Mes- sages, Untranslated Source Words, Review Messages, Review Source Words avmedia/source/viewer.po, 1, 3, 3, 0, 0, 4, 22, 1, 3 Totals are not provided in CSV mode. In normal mode a grand total and file count is provided if the number of files is greater than one. BUGS
There are some miscounts related to word breaks. Translate Toolkit 1.3.0 pocount(1)
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