I have the following directory structure:

webiste/

    locale/

        en/

             LC_MESSAGES/

                     translation.po

        de/

            LC_MESSAGES/

                     translation.po

        fr/

            LC_MESSAGES/

                     translation.po

I am using the find command to get to all the .po files and apply the msgfmt command to them.

So when I run this command:

find . -name *.po

The output is

./locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/translation.po

./locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/translation.po

./locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/translation.po

Just as expected but now I when I add this:

find . -name *.po -exec msgfmt "{}" ;

It outputs nothing and it does not create the .mo files it is supposed to (If I do it to each file individually the msgfmt command works as expected).

This is weird since if I change the command to this:

find . -name *.po -exec echo "{}" ;

It outputs the names of the files correctly.

I've sort of solved it like this:

find . -name *.po -exec msgfmt "{}" -o {}.mo ;

But it outputs a translation.po.mo

How can this be done?