$ alias posieve-fmm='posieve.py find-messages -smark -saccel:_ -m /tmp/fmm.out'
$
$ posieve-fmm -smsgid:'\bprint(er|s|ing)?|\bimag(e|ing|es)' po_files_root/
! po_files_root/alpha.po
! po_files_root/subdir/bravo.po
$
$ cat /tmp/fmm.out
po_files_root/alpha.po
po_files_root/subdir/bravo.po
$
$ kate `cat /tmp/fmm.out`


where posieve.py is a part of Pology, a collection of PO tools that we are brewing in KDE's repository.

You can use pogrep to traverse one or multiple files, regex queries accepted (–regex), accelerator characters can be ignored(–accelerators), and various sections searchable:

pogrep image po/ po-grepped/
# Edit the files
pomerge -t po po-grepped po # merges all of your changes back again

If you want to check terminology or create terminology then you can use the poterminology tool. This won’t fix the terminology for you but will identify problem areas. If there are conflicts then it will display both conflicting entries. You could use this then to execute a pogrep search. The advantage of this approach is that it will highlight words of terminology that you also might not yet have defined. But you probably want to use the next tool for a good cleanup.

Lastly, if you are checking consistency you want to use poconflicts. This will find areas in your translations that are using different translations for the same English source text (note that not all occurrences are incorrect as your language might use different words for English words that have multiple meanings):

poconflicts po/ po-conflicts/

You now have a directory of PO files, one for each word or phrase in conflict. The advantage of this is that if the word in conflict is ‘image’ then we will extract every entry that contains the word image into a file called image.po. While you might lose context you will see the context of the word across the whole project. Try ignoring case to identify more conflicts.

Once you have cleaned up the conflicts we use porestructure and pomerge to get your corrections back into the original files:

porestructure po-conflicts/ po-restructured/ # This converts the PO files back into the original layout of the original PO files
pomerge -t po/ po-restructured/ po/