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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
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MSGINIT(1) User Commands MSGINIT(1)
msginit - initialize a message catalog
msginit [OPTION]
Creates a new PO file, initializing the meta information with
values from the user's environment.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
Input file location:
-i, --input=INPUTFILE
input POT file
If no input file is given, the current directory is searched for
the POT file. If it is -, standard input is read.
Output file location:
-o, --output-file=FILE
write output to specified PO file
If no output file is given, it depends on the --locale option or
the user's locale setting. If it is -, the results are written
to standard output.
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:
-l, --locale=LL_CC[.ENCODING]
set target locale
--no-translator
assume the PO file is automatically generated
--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
-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
Informative output:
-h, --help
display this help and exit
-V, --version
output version information and exit
Written by Bruno Haible.
Report bugs in the bug tracker at
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to
<[email protected]>.
Copyright © 2001-2023 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.
The full documentation for msginit is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and msginit programs are properly installed
at your site, the command
info msginit
should give you access to the complete manual.
This page is part of the gettext (message translation) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext/⟩. This page was
obtained from the tarball gettext-0.22.5.tar.gz fetched from
⟨https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/⟩ on 2024-06-14. If you
discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for
the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the
information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original
manual page), send a mail to [email protected]
GNU gettext-tools 0.22.5 February 2024 MSGINIT(1)
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