MSGCAT(1)
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 and extract comments will be cumulated, except that if
--use-first is specified, they will be taken from the first PO file to
define them. File positions from all PO files will be cumulated.
- 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 (C) 2001-2010 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.