Hi Federico,
I believe you are trying to automate a set of translations, correct?
If so, here's a way to do it in perl that avoids all the shell
convolutions. I assume you do know perl. If not, always worth knowing
for this sort of quick work.
Just add the translations to the hash table in the script. The virtue
of this small tool is that it will tell you if you missed any.
Reads file from stdin. Outputs to stdout. You can figure how to
process the whole directory. There's a hundred ways to do this. Some
people like to open all the files in the perl script. I prefer to
keep it simple.
Hope this may be useful for now and in the future.
Andrew
== snip
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @ref;
# translation table
my %translations = (
'Automatic beams' => 'Automatic Beams in Italian',
'Stems' => 'Stems in Italian',
);
while (<>) {
if (@ref = /address@hidden(.+)\}/) {
if (exists $translations{$ref[0]}) {
s/$ref[0]/$translations{$ref[0]}/;
}
else {
print STDERR "no translation for $ref[0]", "\n";
}
}
print;
}
== snip