generate pot file from cli

[nils-hoyer]

can you please provide a functioning example for generating a .pot file.
I tried to execute the command with all necessary parameters:

i18next-conv --pot -l en -s 'path/to/file' -b 'path/to/file' -K

produces:
start converting --> reading file from: ..../file.json <-- writing file to: ..../en/file.po file written

[jamuhl]

does only pot not work or in general?

[nils-hoyer]

the issue only occurs when generating .pot from cli.
i18next-conv --pot -l en -s 'path/to/file' -b 'path/to/file' -K

from the API it was working fine.
i18nextToPot('ua-UK', readFileSync(source), options).then(save('../locales/ua-UK/translation.pot'));

[jamuhl]

so other commands work from CLI? if so i'm sure @perrin4869 will look into this - you might speed this up by providing a PR containing a fix

[shirazz]

Tried to create a .pot file using the CLI and got the same issue. Did a quick check on the code. This condition will be triggered when no target is specified. So i just added a -t 'path/to/save/file.pot' and it worked.

[jamuhl]

So checking for --pot and depending on it set the correct extension should do the trick