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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Line and word count. Post 302527636 by kumaran_5555 on Saturday 4th of June 2011 01:57:35 AM
Old 06-04-2011
To calculate how many lines you can use,

Code:
wc -l filename.txt

To calulcate how many words /line,

Code:
awk '{print NR NF}' filename

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pocount

pocount(1)						      Translate Toolkit 1.3.0							pocount(1)

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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