TV_COUNT(1p)

💖 tv_count — the count-y bestie of the XMLTV world 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to tv_count, a lil section-1p manual page (that's a perl-contributed-user-doc vibe, iykyk) and honestly? she's simple, she's iconic, she does one thing and she does it flawlessly.

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✨ NAME ✨

tv_count — count (and print!!) the number of channels and programmes in an XMLTV file. that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tv_count -i FILE

one flag, one file, no drama. 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what she does is: read XMLTV listings, and print out a count of the number of channels and the number of programmes in that file. literally that. no cap, no hidden features, no secret sauce. she reads, she counts, she reports back like the reliable main character she is. 🫶

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✨ EXAMPLE ✨

say you got a file called listings.xml and you wanna know how much stuff is in there. you run:

tv_count -i listings.xml

and boom 💥 — counts of all channels and programmes in the file called listings.xml, right there for you. obsessed.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• XMLTV(3) — go check out the whole XMLTV family, she doesn't work alone 💜

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Copyright Geoff Westcott, February 2013. 🌸

This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2). respect the license, bestie, fr fr.

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okay quick vibe check: this page ships with perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-19, and lives under the TV_COUNT(1p) name in the manual. that's the whole lore. go count some channels. slay. 💖✨🎀🦋