Re: Invoking xgettext with many files

[Dave Patton]

Dominik Wallner <dominikob@yahoo.de> wrote in 
news:dnbhs5$cv$1@newsreader1.utanet.at:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm just stuck in the process of internationalizing one of my projects; 
> I did any changes to the source code, linked against libintl, and so on 
> following the GNU gettext manual.
> 
> Now I'm at the point where I need a POT file generated by xgettext, but 
> it seems as if I had to list all source files manually; I couldn't 
> figure out how to have this done automatically.

Make use of the --files-from switch.
For example, if the source files in your project
are in C, and have the extension ".c":
  find . -name "*.cs" -print > mylist
then use
  --files-from=/path/to/mylist

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