msgcat1

Combines several message catalogs

Usage

msgcat [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] ...

Overview

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, 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 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

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 9 times.

--color since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lang since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --style since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).