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The msgfmt command generates a binary message catalog from a textual translation description.

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How to fix broken `msgfmt` installation?

Several projects that I am trying to build from scratch appear to need msgfmt in order to build. They all fail. However, when I try to run it directly on the command line I get: $ msgfmt msgfmt: ...
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Recursively apply the msgfmt command to all .po files in directory with find -exec

I have the following directory structure: webiste/ locale/ en/ LC_MESSAGES/ translation.po de/ LC_MESSAGES/ ...
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