These instructions help for determine which localization strings are used in the bigbluebutton-client 1) Get the keys from the properties file, execute: awk 'match($0,"="){ print substr($0,1,RSTART-1) }' /home/firstuser/dev/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-client/locale/en_US/bbbResources.properties &> keys.properties 2) Copy the following text to a file called routine.sh: for i in $(cat keys.properties) do if grep -nr --exclude-dir="locale" $i /home/firstuser/dev/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-client/ then echo "$i" >> keys-used.properties else echo "$i" >> keys-not-used.properties fi done Then run: sh routine.sh