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Manual Reference Pages  - MSGCAT (1)

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msgcat - combines several message catalogs

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msgcat [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...

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 and extract comments will be cumulated, 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.

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.

-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 -.

-<, --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

-P, --properties-input
	input files are in Java .properties syntax
--stringtable-input
	input files are in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax

-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
-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

-h, --help	display this help and exit
-V, --version
	output version information and exit

Written by Bruno Haible.

Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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.

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