I'm writing this for the purpose of copying all of my local `locale` files from all of my node projects that are using `strong` translation library (https://github.com/fs-webdev/strong) or (https://github.com/timshadel/strong) to a centralized place so that I can create a "translation memory".

localeCopier.js

/**
 * I'm writing this for the purpose of copying all of my local
 * locale files from all of my node projects that are using
 * `strong` translation library (https://github.com/fs-webdev/strong)
 * or (https://github.com/timshadel/strong) to a centralized place
 * so that I can create a "translation memory".
 *
 * Usage:
 *
 * node localeCopier.js # from path defaults to "."; to path defaults to "~/Documents/locales"
 *
 * node localeCopier.js <where you want your locale files> # from path defaults to "."
 *
 * node localeCopier.js <some projects root path> <where you want your locale files> # trailing slashes optional
 *
 */
'use strict';
var dryRun = false;

var exec, args, fromDir, toDir
  , defaultFrom = '.'
  , defaultTo = '~/Documents/locales';

exec = require('child_process').exec;

args = process.argv;

if (args.length === 3) {
  args[3] = args[2];
  args[2] = '.';
}
fromDir = args[2] || defaultFrom;
toDir = args[3] || defaultTo;

function addSlash(path) {
  var lastChar = path.charAt(path.length-1);

  if ((lastChar !== '.') && (lastChar !== '/')) path += '/';
  return path;
}

fromDir = addSlash(fromDir);
toDir = addSlash(toDir);

// We want to ignore node_modules and build directories. If there's anything else you want to ignore, do so here
exec('find ' + fromDir + ' -type d | grep locales | grep -v node_modules | grep -v build', function(err,stdout){
  var dirs, i, l, _rel, names, moduleName, newName, command;
  dirs = stdout.split("\n");
  for (i=0,l=dirs.length; i<l; i++) {
    _rel = dirs[i];
    // We don't care about empty ones
    if (!_rel.length) continue;
    names = _rel.split('/');
    // We don't want subdirectories, since we're copying the whole directory
    if (names[names.length - 1] !== 'locales') continue;
    names.shift(); // Removes '.'
    newName = toDir + names.shift();
    moduleName = names[names.indexOf('locales') - 1];
    if (moduleName) newName += '/' + moduleName;
    names.splice(0, names.indexOf('locales') + 1);
    command = "mkdir -p " + newName + " && cp -r " + _rel + "/* " + newName + "/";
    if (dryRun) {
      console.log(command);
      continue;
    }
    exec(command);
  }
});