NAME
msggrep - pattern matching on message catalog
SYNOPSIS
msggrep [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]
DESCRIPTION
Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a given pat‐
tern or belong to some given source files.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
Input file location:
INPUTFILE
input PO file
-D, directory=DIRECTORY
add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
If no input file is given or if it 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:
[-N SOURCEFILE]... [-M DOMAINNAME]... [-J MSGCTXT-PATTERN] [-K
MSGID-PATTERN] [-T MSGSTR-PATTERN] [-C COMMENT-PATTERN] [-X
EXTRACTED-COMMENT-PATTERN]
A message is selected if it comes from one of the specified source
files, or if it comes from one of the specified domains, or if -J is
given and its context (msgctxt) matches MSGCTXT-PATTERN, or if -K is
given and its key (msgid or msgidplural) matches MSGID-PATTERN, or if
-T is given and its translation (msgstr) matches MSGSTR-PATTERN, or if
-C is given and the translator's comment matches COMMENT-PATTERN, or if
-X is given and the extracted comment matches EXTRACTED-COMMENT-PAT‐
TERN.
When more than one selection criterion is specified, the set of
selected messages is the union of the selected messages of each crite‐
rion.
MSGCTXT-PATTERN or MSGID-PATTERN or MSGSTR-PATTERN or COMMENT-PATTERN
or EXTRACTED-COMMENT-PATTERN syntax:
[-E | -F] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE]...
PATTERNs are basic regular expressions by default, or extended regular
expressions if -E is given, or fixed strings if -F is given.
-N, location=SOURCEFILE
select messages extracted from SOURCEFILE
-M, domain=DOMAINNAME
select messages belonging to domain DOMAINNAME
-J, msgctxt
start of patterns for the msgctxt
-K, msgid
start of patterns for the msgid
-T, msgstr
start of patterns for the msgstr
-C, comment
start of patterns for the translator's comment
-X, extracted-comment
start of patterns for the extracted comment
-E, extended-regexp
PATTERN is an extended regular expression
-F, fixed-strings
PATTERN is a set of newline-separated strings
-e, regexp=PATTERN
use PATTERN as a regular expression
-f, file=FILE
obtain PATTERN from FILE
-i, ignore-case
ignore case distinctions
-v, invert-match
output only the messages that do not match any selection crite‐
rion
Input file syntax:
-P, properties-input
input file is in Java .properties syntax
stringtable-input
input file is 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
no-escape
do not use C escapes in output (default)
escape
use C escapes in output, no extended chars
force-po
write PO file even if empty
indent
indented output style
no-location
suppress '#: filename:line' lines
-n, add-location
preserve '#: filename:line' lines (default)
strict
strict Uniforum output style
-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
sort-output
generate sorted output
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 msggrep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and msggrep programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info msggrep
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU gettext-tools 0.19.8.1 June 2016 MSGGREP(1)