MSGFILTER
Section: GNU (1)Updated: November 2007
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NAME
msgfilter - edit translations of message catalogSYNOPSIS
msgfilter [OPTION] FILTER [FILTER-OPTION]DESCRIPTION
Applies a filter to all translations of a translation catalog.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
Input file location:
- -i, --input=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 specified or if it is -.
The FILTER can be any program that reads a translation from standard input and writes a modified translation to standard output.
Useful FILTER-OPTIONs when the FILTER is 'sed':
- -e, --expression=SCRIPT
- add SCRIPT to the commands to be executed
- -f, --file=SCRIPTFILE
- add the contents of SCRIPTFILE to the commands to be executed
- -n, --quiet, --silent
- suppress automatic printing of pattern space
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:
- --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
- --indent
- indented output style
- --keep-header
- keep header entry unmodified, don't filter it
- --no-location
- suppress '#: filename:line' lines
- --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
- -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 <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>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 msgfilter is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and msgfilter programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info msgfilter
should give you access to the complete manual.
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