.\" This manual page was written based on msghack --help
.\" by Nicolas François in 2007.
.\" It is distributed under the same license as msghack.py
.TH MSGHACK 1
.SH NAME
msghack \- Alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B msghack
[OPTION]
.I file.po
.RI [ ref.po ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmsghack\fP can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would
think about.
.P
It  can swap msgid and msgstr in a PO file, remove all translations in
order to convert a translation file into a template file, and can also
append the contents of one PO file to another.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI "\-o " FILE
Write the result to \fIFILE\fP.
.TP
.B \-\-invert
Invert a po file by switching msgid and msgstr.
.TP
.B \-\-master
Join any number of files in a master-formatted catalog
.TP
.B \-\-empty
Empty the contents of the .po file, creating a .pot.
.TP
.B \-\-append
Append entries from \fIref.po\fP that don't exist in \fIfile.po\fP.