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MSGCAT
Section: GNU (1)Updated: June 2016
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NAME
msgcat - combines several message catalogsSYNOPSIS
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 to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001-2016 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.
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.