Man1 - msggrep.1

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.

-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 -.

[-N SOURCEFILE]… [-M DOMAINNAME]… [-J MSGCTXT-PATTERN] [-K MSGID-PATTERN] [-T MSGSTR-PATTERN] [-C COMMENT-PATTERN] [-X EXTRACTED-COMMENT-PATTERN]

A message is selected if it comes from one of the specified source files, or if it comes from one of the specified domains, or if -J is given and its context (msgctxt) matches MSGCTXT-PATTERN, or if -K is given and its key (msgid or msgid_plural) matches MSGID-PATTERN, or if -T is given and its translation (msgstr) matches MSGSTR-PATTERN, or if -C is given and the translator’s comment matches COMMENT-PATTERN, or if -X is given and the extracted comment matches EXTRACTED-COMMENT-PATTERN.

When more than one selection criterion is specified, the set of selected messages is the union of the selected messages of each criterion.

MSGCTXT-PATTERN or MSGID-PATTERN or MSGSTR-PATTERN or COMMENT-PATTERN or EXTRACTED-COMMENT-PATTERN syntax:

[-E | -F] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE]…

PATTERNs are basic regular expressions by default, or extended regular expressions if -E is given, or fixed strings if -F is given.

-N, *–location*=/SOURCEFILE/

select messages extracted from SOURCEFILE

-M, *–domain*=/DOMAINNAME/

select messages belonging to domain DOMAINNAME

-J, –msgctxt

start of patterns for the msgctxt

-K, –msgid

start of patterns for the msgid

-T, –msgstr

start of patterns for the msgstr

-C, –comment

start of patterns for the translator’s comment

-X, –extracted-comment

start of patterns for the extracted comment

-E, –extended-regexp

PATTERN is an extended regular expression

-F, –fixed-strings

PATTERN is a set of newline-separated strings

-e, *–regexp*=/PATTERN/

use PATTERN as a regular expression

-f, *–file*=/FILE/

obtain PATTERN from FILE

-i, –ignore-case

ignore case distinctions

-v, –invert-match

output only the messages that do not match any selection criterion

-P, –properties-input

input file is in Java .properties syntax

–stringtable-input

input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax

–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)

–escape

use C escapes in output, no extended chars

–force-po

write PO file even if empty

–indent

indented output style

–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

–sort-output

generate sorted output

–sort-by-file

sort output by file location

-h, –help

display this help and exit

-V, –version

output version information and exit