gettext
translate message
Synopsis
gettext
[OPTION] [[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID]
gettext [OPTION] -s [MSGID]...
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description
The
gettext program translates a natural language message
into the user’s language, by looking up the
translation in a message catalog.
Display native
language translation of a textual message.
-d,
--domain=TEXTDOMAIN
retrieve translated messages
from TEXTDOMAIN
-e
enable expansion of some escape sequences
-E
(ignored for compatibility)
-h,
--help
display this help and exit
-n
suppress trailing newline
-V,
--version
display version information and
exit
[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID
retrieve translated message
corresponding to MSGID from TEXTDOMAIN
If the
TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined
from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN. If the message
catalog is not found in the regular directory, another
location can be specified with the environment variable
TEXTDOMAINDIR. When used with the -s option the
program behaves like the ’echo’ command. But it
does not simply copy its arguments to stdout. Instead those
messages found in the selected catalog are translated.
Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale
copyright
Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute
it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
reporting bugs
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext[:at:]gnu[:dot:]org>.
see also
The full
documentation for gettext is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and gettext programs are
properly installed at your site, the command
info
gettext
should give you
access to the complete manual.
author
Written by
Ulrich Drepper.