Man1 - msgcat.1
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NAME
msgcat - combines several message catalogs
SYNOPSIS
msgcat [/OPTION/] [/INPUTFILE/]…
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, extracted comments, and file positions will be cumulated, except that if *–use-first is specified, they will be taken from the first PO file to define them.
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
AUTHOR
Written by Bruno Haible.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs in the bug tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext or by email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later https://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.
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.