NGETTEXT

NGETTEXT

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

ngettext - print out string using translation with singular/plural

SYNOPSIS

ngettext [''OPTION''? [''TEXTDOMAIN''? MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT

DESCRIPTION

The ngettext program prints out a translation. It chooses between the singular and plural forms according to the COUNT parameter.

-d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN

retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

-e

enable expansion of some escape sequences

-E

(ignored for compatibility)

-h, --help

display a help message and exit

-V, --version

display version information and exit

[''TEXTDOMAIN''?

retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

MSGID MSGID-PLURAL

translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)

COUNT

choose singular/plural form based on this value

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. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1995-1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ngettext programs are properly installed at your site, the command info ngettext should give you access to the complete manual.

On Debian, the manual is also available in HTML format in the gettext-doc package.