Re: Finding strings in GNOME

[Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor ukr net>]

понеділок, 10 травня 2021 р. 18:26:21 EEST Matej Urban via gnome-i18n 
написано:
> Yuri,
> this method of yours actually works perfectly!
> Is it possible to extend this script to use multiple locations as there are
> at least 2 ...
>
>    - /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/
>    - /usr/share/locale-langpack/da/LC_MESSAGES/
>
> and to also include .mo and .po files.

Sure. find takes several arguments. For example, to search in POs you can use

-name '*.mo' -o -name '*.po'

To combine several directories just add more finds

`find /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES -name '*.mo'` `find /home/your_user/pos -
name '*.po'`

Best regards,
Yuri

> Anyhow, thank you very much, it is usable as in this form also!
> Best,
> Matej
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 3:41 PM Ask Hjorth Larsen via gnome-i18n <
>
> gnome-i18n gnome org> wrote:
> > Am Mo., 10. Mai 2021 um 02:17 Uhr schrieb scootergrisen via gnome-i18n
> >
> > <gnome-i18n gnome org>:
> > > Den 09-05-2021 kl. 23:21 skrev Daniel Șerbănescu:
> > > > În data de Du, 09-05-2021 la 22:37 +0200, Matej Urban via gnome-i18n a
> > > >
> > > > scris:
> > > > > Hello, I need a bit of help.
> > > > > I frequently see strange translations, but then can not find, which
> > > > > packet those belong to. Is there a simple way to find them?
> > > >
> > > > Hello Matej,
> > > > Here are the steps I usually do:
> > > > 1. On your language team page in Damned Lies open a release page (Like
> > > > Gnome 40). There is a link to download all the .po files, it is
> > > > located
> > > > at the bottom of translation statistics. So click that link to
> > > > download
> > > > E.g. For the Romanian team the link would be at the bottom os this
> >
> > page:
> > > > https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ro/gnome-40/ui/
> > > > <https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ro/gnome-40/ui/>
> > > > 2. Extract the .po files in a folder
> > > > 3. Open a terminal in that folder
> > > > 4. Use the following grep command: grep -ri "the string you are
> > > > looking
> > > > for" *
> > > > (replace "the string you are looking for" with the actual search
> > > > term.)
> > > >
> > > > Be aware that there can be memonics in the original string so you
> > > > could
> > > > try searching for a part of that string.
> > >
> > > Do anyone know how to ignore these "_" memonics that might be in
> > > strings?
> > >
> > > So i can search for "Test" and i will find all these:
> > > "Test"
> > > "_Test"
> > > "T_est"
> > > "Te_st"
> > > "Tes_t"
> >
> > With pyg3t [1] you can do:
> >     gtgrep --accel=_ Test filename.po
> >
> > It ignores the accelerator character when matching and also prints the
> > whole msgid+msgstr+comments rather than just the matching line.
> >
> > For checking files in many directories, one would use find and xargs.
> >
> > E.g.:
> >     find -name "*.po" | xargs gtgrep --accel=_ Test
> >
> > [1] https://gitlab.com/pyg3t/pyg3t
> >
> > Best regards
> > Ask
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