To easily gather .pot files, combine them with existing .po files and converting them to .mo files, I created this makefile for use with automake:
.PHONY: _site.pot backup POFILES:=$(wildcard *.po) NOW=$(shell date +%s) all: backup make $(POFILES:.po=.mo) %.mo: %.po echo Generating $@ msgfmt -o $@ $< || echo -e "\033[33;1m $@ is wrong \033[0m" %.po: _site.pot if [ -e $@ ]; then \ mv $@ $(@:.po=.potmp) ; msgmerge --no-fuzzy-matching $(@:.po=.potmp) _site.pot > $@ ; \ rm $(@:.po=.potmp) ; \ else \ echo Creating new file ; cp _site.pot $@ ; \ fi _site.pot: find /var/www/html -iname "*.php" | grep -v wpcode > my-php-files xgettext --from-code=utf-8 -d site -f my-php-files --keyword=_e --keyword=__ -o - | sed "s/CHARSET/UTF-8/" > _site.pot rm my-php-files backup: mkdir -f .backup tar zcf .backup/backup-$(NOW).tgz *.po Makefile |