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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting files based on Substring match Post 302625239 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 17th of April 2012 12:23:33 PM
Old 04-17-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by 47shailesh
loose the quotes and ^ . Quotes wont allow your variable to expand, and ^ searches for file name starting with variable name, which is your case is at the end. use following
Code:
ls $FILE | grep -v $UPADTE

more precisely use:
Code:
ls $FILE | grep -v $UPADTE.csv

The proper advice would be to use weak quotes
Code:
ls "$FILE" | grep -v "$UPDATE.csv"

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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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