NAME¶
msgcomm - match two message catalogs
SYNOPSIS¶
msgcomm [
OPTION] [
INPUTFILE]...
DESCRIPTION¶
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 preserved, but only 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.
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:¶
- -<, --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 1 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
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
- -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
- --omit-header
- don't write header with `msgid ""' entry
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -V, --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR¶
Written by Peter Miller.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1995-1998, 2000-2010 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
msgcomm is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the
info and
msgcomm programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
- info msgcomm
should give you access to the complete manual.