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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 © 2001-2023 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.
Referenced By
pocompendium(1), pomigrate2(1).