How to find duplicate keys in localizable.strings files automatically?

Question

When using localizable.strings with many entries in your XCode project you sooner or later may use a key more than once. Is it possible to let XCode find that case and issue a w

Answer 1

cut -d' ' -f1 Localizable.strings | sort | uniq -c

type this command in the terminal and you get a list saying how often each key is used.

use -d instead of -c and you only get duplicates

the script:

#!/bin/bash

c=`expr $SCRIPT_INPUT_FILE_COUNT - 1`
for i in $(seq 0 $c)
    do

    var="SCRIPT_INPUT_FILE_$i"
    FILENAME=${!var}

    DUPES=`cut -d' ' -f1 "$FILENAME" | sort | uniq -d`

    while read -r line; do
        if [[ $line == "\""* ]] ;
        then
            echo "warning: $line used multiple times -"
        fi
    done <<< "$DUPES"
done