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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.Input file location:
- -i, --input=,INPUTFILE/
- input PO file
- -D, --directory=,DIRECTORY/
- add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
Output file location:
- -o, --output-file=,FILE/
- write output to specified file
Filter input and output:
- --newline
- add a newline at the end of input and remove a newline from the end of 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:
- --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)
- -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
- -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
- -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 in the bug tracker at <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>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
July 2020 | GNU gettext-tools 20200704 |