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NAME
msgfilter - edit translations of message catalog
SYNOPSIS
msgfilter [/OPTION/] /FILTER /[/FILTER-OPTION/]
DESCRIPTION
Applies a filter to all translations of a translation catalog.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
Input file location:
- -i, *–input*=/INPUTFILE/
- input PO file
- -D, *–directory*=/DIRECTORY/
- add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
If no input file is given or if it 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 -.
The FILTER can be any program that reads a translation from standard input and writes a modified translation to standard output.
Filter input and output:
- –newline
- add a newline at the end of input and remove a newline from the end of output
Useful FILTER-OPTIONs when the FILTER is ’sed’:
- -e, *–expression*=/SCRIPT/
- add SCRIPT to the commands to be executed
- -f, *–file*=/SCRIPTFILE/
- add the contents of SCRIPTFILE to the commands to be executed
- -n, –quiet, –silent
- suppress automatic printing of pattern space
Input file syntax:
- -P, –properties-input
- input file is in Java .properties syntax
- –stringtable-input
- input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax
Output details:
- –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
- –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
- –indent
- indented output style
- –keep-header
- keep header entry unmodified, don’t filter it
- –no-location
- suppress ’#: filename:line’ lines
- -n, –add-location
- preserve ’#: filename:line’ lines (default)
- –strict
- strict Uniforum output style
- -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 msgfilter is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and msgfilter programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info msgfilter
should give you access to the complete manual.