MSGUNIQ

Section: GNU (1)
Updated: November 2007
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NAME

msguniq - unify duplicate translations in message catalog

SYNOPSIS

msguniq [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]

DESCRIPTION

Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog. Finds duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such duplicates are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt, msgmerge or msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged together. When using the --repeated option, only duplicates are output, and all other messages are discarded. Comments and extracted comments will be cumulated, except that if --use-first is specified, they will be taken from the first translation. File positions will be cumulated. When using the --unique option, duplicates are discarded.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

Input file location:

INPUTFILE: input PO file
-D, --directory=DIRECTORY: add DIRECTORY to list for input files search

If no input file is given or if it 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:

-d, --repeated: print only duplicates
-u, --unique: print only unique messages, discard duplicates

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:

-t, --to-code=NAME: encoding for output
--use-first: use first available translation for each message, don't merge several translations
-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

Informative output:

-h, --help: display this help and exit
-V, --version: output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Bruno Haible.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2001-2007 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.