Filtering help please

[dinkypumpkin]

On 18/11/2011 15:17, Nigel Taylor wrote:
> get_iplayer --type=tv --long --versions=default[[:punct:]]?$
> ...
> INFO: 837 Matching Programmes
>
> This works on OpenBSD, Debian not tried on Windows..

For anyone keeping score, it works the same on Windows - it's all Perl 
underneath.  You may need to enclose a regular expression in quotes if 
it contains shell metacharacters, which are different in Linux and Windows.

> You can verify that number using the index cache directly.. 838 includes a header line.
>
> $ cut -d"|" -f1,9 .get_iplayer/tv.cache | grep -v signed  | grep -v audiodescribed | wc
>       838     838   10166

To the OP: If you are in fact attempting to gather some kind of 
statistics, you might find it worthwhile to import the index cache file 
into a spreadsheet or database.  It's just delimited text, so easy to 
import.