msginit (1) - Linux Manuals
msginit: initialize a message catalog
NAME
msginit - initialize a message catalog
SYNOPSIS
msginit [OPTION]DESCRIPTION
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
- 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
AUTHOR
Written by Bruno Haible.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext [at] gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001-2016 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 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.