.TH pocommentclean 1 "Translate Toolkit 1.3.0" "" "Translate Toolkit 1.3.0"
.SH NAME
pocommentclean \- Remove all translator comments from PO files.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBpocommentclean\fR [\fB\-\-backup\fR] \fIpo-dir\fR

where \fIpo-dir\fR is a directory of existing PO files that you want to
clean.
.SH DESCRIPTION
pocommentclean will remove all translator comments from a directory of PO
files.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-\-backup\fR
Create a backup file for each PO file converted, with the \fI.po.bak\fR
extension.
.SH OPERATION
Using sed \fBpocommentclean\fR will delete all lines starting with # but which
are not standard Gettext PO format lines. So it won't delete developer
comments (#.), obsolete messages (#~), flags (#,) or locations (#:).
.SH BUGS
\fBpocommentclean\fR cannot clean individual PO files, it only cleans
directories.