XGETTEXT

XGETTEXT

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

xgettext - extract translatable string from given input files

SYNOPSIS

xgettext [''OPTION''? INPUTFILE ...

DESCRIPTION

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

-a, --extract-all

extract all strings

-c, --add-comments[=''TAG''?

place comment block with TAG (or those preceding keyword lines) in output file

-C, --c++

shorthand for --language=C++

--debug

more detailed formatstring recognision result

-d, --default-domain=NAME

use NAME.po for output (instead of messages.po)

-D, --directory=DIRECTORY

add DIRECTORY to list for input files search

-e, --no-escape

do not use C escapes in output (default)

-E, --escape

use C escapes in output, no extended chars

-f, --files-from=FILE

get list of input files from FILE

--force-po

write PO file even if empty

--foreign-user

omit FSF copyright in output for foreign user

-F, --sort-by-file

sort output by file location

-h, --help

display a help message and exit

-i, --indent

write the .po file using indented style

-j, --join-existing

join messages with existing file

-k, --keyword[=''WORD''?

additonal keyword to be looked for (without WORD means not to use default keywords)

-L, --language=NAME

recognise the specified language (C, C++, PO), otherwise is guessed from file extension

-m, --msgstr-prefix[=''STRING''?

use STRING or ''

-M, --msgstr-suffix[=''STRING''?

use STRING or ''

--no-location

do not write '#: filename:line' lines

-n, --add-location

generate '#: filename:line' lines (default)

--omit-header

don't write header with `msgid

-o, --output=FILE

write output to specified file

-p, --output-dir=DIR

output files will be placed in directory DIR

-s, --sort-output

generate sorted output and remove duplicates

--strict

write out strict Uniforum conforming .po file

-T, --trigraphs

understand ANSI C trigraphs for input

-V, --version

output version information and exit

-w, --width=NUMBER

set output page width

-x, --exclude-file=FILE

entries from FILE are not extracted

If INPUTFILE is -, standard input is read.

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1995-1998, 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

gettext(1), msgmerge(1)

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

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