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NAME¶
msguniq - unify duplicate translations in message catalog
SYNOPSIS¶
msguniq [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]
DESCRIPTION¶
Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog. Finds duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such duplicates are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt, msgmerge or msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged together. When using the --repeated option, only duplicates are output, and all other messages are discarded. Comments and extracted comments will be cumulated, except that if --use-first is specified, they will be taken from the first translation. File positions will be cumulated. When using the --unique option, duplicates are discarded.
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 specified or if it is -.
Message selection:¶
- -d, --repeated
- print only duplicates
- -u, --unique
- print only unique messages, discard duplicates
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:¶
- -t, --to-code=NAME
- encoding for output
- --use-first
- use first available translation for each message, don't merge several translations
- --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
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>
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 msguniq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and msguniq programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info msguniq
should give you access to the complete manual.
February 2023 | GNU gettext-tools 0.21 |