NAME
msgcomm - match two message catalogs
SYNOPSIS
msgcomm [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...
DESCRIPTION
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 extracted comments will be preserved, but
only 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 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
1 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:
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
omit-header
don't write header with 'msgid ""' entry
Informative output:
-h, help
display this help and exit
-V, version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Peter Miller.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1995-1998, 2000-2016 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 msgcomm is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and msgcomm programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info msgcomm
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU gettext-tools 0.19.8.1 June 2016 MSGCOMM(1)