MSGCAT(1) GNU MSGCAT(1)NAMEmsgcat - combines several message catalogs
SYNOPSISmsgcat [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Concatenates and merges the specified PO files. Find mes-
sages which are common to two or more of the specified PO
files. By using the --more-than option, greater commonal-
ity may be requested before messages are printed. Con-
versely, 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 cumu-
lated, 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 defini-
tions, defaults to infinite if not set
->, --more-than=NUMBER
print messages with more than this many defini-
tions, defaults to 0 if not set
-u, --unique
shorthand for --less-than=2, requests that only
unique messages be printed
Output details:
-t, --to-code=NAME
encoding for output
--use-first
use first available translation for each message,
don't merge several translations
-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
-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) 2001-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying condi-
tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for msgcat is maintained as a Tex-
info 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.
GNU gettext 0.11.5 August 2002 MSGCAT(1)
