msgcat
combines several message catalogs
Synopsis
msgcat
[OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...
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description
Concatenates
and merges the specified PO files. Find messages which are
common to two or more of the specified PO files. By using
the --more-than option, greater
commonality may be requested before messages are printed.
Conversely, the --less-than option
may be used to specify less commonality before messages are
printed (i.e. --less-than=2
will only print the unique messages). Translations, comments
and extract comments will be cumulated, except that if
--use-first is specified, they will
be taken from the first PO file to define them. File
positions from all PO files will be cumulated.
Mandatory
arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
Input file
location:
INPUTFILE ...
input files
-f,
--files-from=FILE
get list of input files from
FILE
-D,
--directory=DIRECTORY
add DIRECTORY to list for input
files search
If input file
is -, standard input is read.
Output file
location:
-o,
--output-file=FILE
write output to specified
file
The results are
written to standard output if no output file is specified or
if it is -.
Message
selection:
-<,
--less-than=NUMBER
print messages with less than
this many definitions, defaults to infinite if not set
->,
--more-than=NUMBER
print messages with more than
this many definitions, defaults to 0 if not set
-u,
--unique
shorthand for
--less-than=2, requests that
only unique messages be printed
Input file
syntax:
-P,
--properties-input
input files are in Java
.properties syntax
--stringtable-input
input files are in
NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax
Output
details:
-t,
--to-code=NAME
encoding for output
--use-first
use first available translation
for each message, don’t merge several translations
--lang=CATALOGNAME
set ’Language’
field in the header entry
--color
use colors and other text
attributes always
--color=WHEN
use colors and other text
attributes if WHEN. WHEN may be ’always’,
’never’, ’auto’, or
’html’.
--style=STYLEFILE
specify CSS style rule file for
--color
-e,
--no-escape
do not use C escapes in output
(default)
-E,
--escape
use C escapes in output, no
extended chars
--force-po
write PO file even if empty
-i,
--indent
write the .po file using
indented style
--no-location
do not write ’#:
filename:line’ lines
-n,
--add-location
generate ’#:
filename:line’ lines (default)
--strict
write out strict Uniforum
conforming .po file
-p,
--properties-output
write out a Java .properties
file
--stringtable-output
write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep
.strings file
-w,
--width=NUMBER
set output page width
--no-wrap
do not break long message
lines, longer than the output page width, into several
lines
-s,
--sort-output
generate sorted output
-F,
--sort-by-file
sort output by file
location
Informative
output:
-h, --help
display this help and exit
-V,
--version
output version information and
exit
copyright
Copyright © 2001-2010 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 msgcat is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and msgcat programs are
properly installed at your site, the command
info
msgcat
should give you
access to the complete manual.
author
Written by
Bruno Haible.