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gettext - translate message
gettext [OPTION] [[TEXTDOMAIN]
MSGID]
gettext [OPTION] -s [MSGID]...
The gettext program translates a
natural language message into the user’s language, by looking up the translation
in a message catalog.
Display native language translation of a textual message.
- -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
- retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN
- -e
- enable
expansion of some escape sequences
- -E
- (ignored for compatibility)
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -n
- suppress trailing newline
- -V, --version
- display
version information and exit
- [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID
- retrieve translated message
corresponding to MSGID from TEXTDOMAIN
If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not
given, the domain is determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN.
If the message catalog is not found in the regular directory, another
location can be specified with the environment variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. When
used with the -s option the program behaves like the ‘echo’ command. But it
does not simply copy its arguments to stdout. Instead those messages found
in the selected catalog are translated. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2007 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.
The full documentation
for gettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and gettext
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info gettext
should give you access to the complete manual.
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