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Use xgettext to create default.pot from all PHP files in a directory (recursive), and place it in /languages/.
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xgettext --from-code=utf-8 -k_e -k_x -k__ -o languages/default.pot $(find . -name "*.php")
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Does not work for large amount of files: "Argument list too long". This did: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11451105/recursive-scan-for-files-with-xgettext

Making the line:

find . -iname "*.php" | xargs xgettext --from-code=UTF-8 -k_e -k_x -k__ -o languages/default.pot

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