Recursive option

[benjaminaudet]

Hey, I just discovered your tool, first of all, great job!

I think it could be cool to have a -r, --recursive option on the CLI to avoid that types of behavior : i18n-lint: ./components/base-components: is a directory

Thanks !

[jwarby]

Hi @benjaminaudet, apologies for the late reply. I won't really have any time to look at this in the near future, but happy to accept a PR for it if you want to have a go!

[ShetlandJ]

I have a fairly janky solution to this @benjaminaudet. I'm not sure if it will help you, but I ran this command against the directories I wanted to recursively check:

find ./ -type f 

That gave me a list of files, which I dropped into a text file. I then set up a new JS project and used this code to get the list:

const fs = require('fs');
const I18nLint = require('i18n-lint');

try {
    const data = fs.readFileSync('files_to_check.txt', 'utf8').split('\n');

    let baseDir = 'the path to the top level dir I wanted to recursively check through'

    data.forEach(file => {
        const errors = I18nLint(baseDir + file, {
            templateDelimiters: [['{{', '}}']], // I did this with a Vue repo
        });

        console.log(errors);
    })

} catch (e) {
    console.log('Error:', e.stack);
}

It outputs like this, so maybe not 100% ideal but it's enough for me to know the scope of the issues:

[tisoap]

You can still use a glob pattern to match all files in a directory tree, I.E.:

i18n-lint 'components/base-components/**/*.html'

If using inside a NPM script, don't forget to wrap the glob patter in quotation marks:
https://medium.com/@jakubsynowiec/you-should-always-quote-your-globs-in-npm-scripts-621887a2a784