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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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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
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OPTIONS

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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

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