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 mes‐
sages 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, com‐
ments, 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 speci‐
fied 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 .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later
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.
GNU gettext-tools 0.19.8.1 June 2016 MSGCAT(1)