Hey hey Silvio, hm this looks more like a challenge for a whole script. I can script, but I'm not always the most efficient. If your .md files always look the same, i.e. there is always the exact line "date: yyyy-mm-dd" and you can be sure that one script folder will have all articles, because they are originally written in that language, I'd have an idea. Say your articles are all created in German: grep -e "date: 2019-10-1" content/de/blog/*.md >orig.list LINES=`wc -l orig.list | awk '{ print $2 }'` # get number of entries # do the same for the ohter folders: grep -e "date: 2019-10-1" content/en/blog/*.md >en.list grep -e "date: 2019-10-1" content/fr/blog/*.md >fr.list # complete for other folders # now check CURLINE=1 while [[ $CURLINE -le $LINES ]]; do CURDATE=`sed -n ${CURLINE}p orig.list # get an article date for FILE in en.list fr.list ru.list and_so_on; do COUNT=`grep -c -e "${CURDATE}" ${FILE} if [[ $COUNT -eq 0 ]]; then # not found in translation echo ${CURDATE} missing in ${FILE}" >missing.files; fi; done let CURLINE=CURLINE+1; # go to next original date done rm *.list # remove your temporary files You can beautify the echo line, at the moment this would write something like: date: 2019-10-12 ru.list But it should do. I'm sure a more elegant script can be written. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c I thought love was just a tingling of the skin <3 (Britney Spears)