Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm doing a short batch script to compile po files producing output binary mo files.

The compilation command is:
msgfmt -o file.mo file.po

so in order to compile I am appending .mo to the varible in a loop.

It goes something like this:
for i in `find . -name "*.po"`
do
echo "Compiling $i"
msgfmt -o $i.mo $i
done

The result are file.po and file.po.mo files, but what is requeried is
file.po and file.mo.
SO I tied renaming after the compilation command with:
mv $i `expr $i : '\(.*\).po'` #rename 'file.po.mo' to 'file'
mv $i $.mo

but $i does not equal 'file', so the last line fails. I tried a few things like using awk and assigning another variable to 'file' and renaiming that, but yet to no avail.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Well, seeing as you're using bash, try changing the compilation line to

Code:

msgfmt -o `expr substr $i 1 $(( ${#i} - 3 ))`.mo $i

That should remove the ".po" before you start, so you won't need the "mv" now.

Cheers
ZB

Thanks ZB, works well and is a useful bit of code