add script to generate .pot file, needed by distcheck

[inkscape.git] / po / update_po_files.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Updates PO files from the current POT file
+# Please run this program from the po/ directory
+# Existing po.old files will be overwritten
+
+type -p intltool-update >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
+  intltool-update --pot >/dev/null 2>&1
+  POT_FILENAME="`ls -1rt *.pot 2>/dev/null|tail -1 2>/dev/null`"
+  if [ ! -r "$POT_FILENAME" ]; then
+    echo "Could not create POT file. Exiting."
+    exit
+  fi
+else
+  echo "Could not create POT file (intltool-update not found). Exiting."
+  exit
+fi
+
+PO_FILE_COUNT=0
+
+find . -noleaf -type f -name "*.po"|sort|\
+(
+while read FILENAME; do
+  PO_FILE_COUNT=`expr $PO_FILE_COUNT + 1`
+  mv -f "$FILENAME" "$FILENAME".old     # do not ask questions, because the answers would come from the pipe
+  if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
+    echo "$FILENAME"
+    msgmerge "$FILENAME".old "$POT_FILENAME" > "$FILENAME"
+    if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
+      echo "Could not merge \"$FILENAME.old\"."
+    fi
+  else
+    echo "Could not rename \"$FILENAME\". File skipped."
+  fi
+done
+
+echo; echo "Total number of PO files: $PO_FILE_COUNT"
+)
+
+echo