I’m running them with the bash that comes with git on windows
Well apparently I’m a sadist so finally after one long and annoying Windows 10 update I got the subsystem installed, tried running ./extract_all.sh and…
me@mymachine: ./extract_all.sh
./duplicati/extract.sh: line 14: xgettext: command not found
./webroot/extract.sh: line 6: angular-gettext-cli: command not found
Sigh. I expect it’ll run just fine on one of my Linux VMs.
It’s not that I want to take over translation processing or anything - I just want to “fully” test my single period change. 
I’m waiting for the first post about installing the .deb package or using Linux paths on Windows… 
For those that might still want to play around with it…
The Windows 10 'bash' installation text
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\me>bash
– Beta feature –
This will install Ubuntu on Windows, distributed by Canonical
and licensed under its terms available here:
https://aka.ms/uowterms
Type “y” to continue: y
Downloading from the Windows Store… 100%
Extracting filesystem, this will take a few minutes…
Please create a default UNIX user account. The username does not need to match your Windows username.
For more information visit: Set up a WSL development environment | Microsoft Learn
Enter new UNIX username: me
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Installation successful!
The environment will start momentarily…
Documentation is available at: Install WSL | Microsoft Learn
To run a command as administrator (user “root”), use “sudo ”.
See “man sudo_root” for details.
me@myPC:/mnt/c/Users/me$
I remember something about being able to apt-get install xgettext from the Windows subsystem?
I’m using these windows binaries:
plus node.js with this:
not sure if you can run them from the windows subsystem? Otherwise Ken’s probposal sounds good…