diff --git a/devscripts/translations-po2ts.sh b/devscripts/translations-po2ts.sh
index 25ef7063..f73d04e3 100755
--- a/devscripts/translations-po2ts.sh
+++ b/devscripts/translations-po2ts.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export QT_SELECT="qt5"
 for file in $POFILES/*.po
  do
   echo Checking "$file"
-  NEWNAME=echo $("$file" |sed 's:^../po/::')
+  NEWNAME=echo $($file |sed 's:^../po/::')
   #NEWNAME=`echo "$file" |sed 's:^../po/::'`
   echo $NEWNAME
   msgfmt -o /dev/null --statistics $file