GNU gettext utilities: msgexec Invocation
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9.10 Invoking the msgexec Program
msgexec [option] command [command-option]
The msgexec
program applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog. The command
can be any program that reads a translation from standard input. It is invoked once for each translation. Its output becomes msgexec’s output. msgexec
’s return code is the maximum return code across all invocations.
A special builtin command called ‘0
’ outputs the translation, followed by a null byte. The output of ‘msgexec 0
’ is suitable as input for ‘xargs -0
’.
- ‘
--newline
’ Add newline at the end of each input line.
During each command
invocation, the environment variable MSGEXEC_MSGID
is bound to the message’s msgid, and the environment variable MSGEXEC_LOCATION
is bound to the location in the PO file of the message. If the message has a context, the environment variable MSGEXEC_MSGCTXT
is bound to the message’s msgctxt, otherwise it is unbound. If the message has a plural form, environment variable MSGEXEC_MSGID_PLURAL
is bound to the message’s msgid_plural and MSGEXEC_PLURAL_FORM
is bound to the order number of the plural actually processed (starting with 0), otherwise both are unbound. If the message has a previous msgid (added by msgmerge
), environment variable MSGEXEC_PREV_MSGCTXT
is bound to the message’s previous msgctxt, MSGEXEC_PREV_MSGID
is bound to the previous msgid, and MSGEXEC_PREV_MSGID_PLURAL
is bound to the previous msgid_plural.
Note: It is your responsibility to ensure that the command
can cope with input encoded in the translation catalog’s encoding. If the command
wants input in a particular encoding, you can in a first step convert the translation catalog to that encoding using the ‘msgconv
’ program, before invoking ‘msgexec
’. If the command
wants input in the locale’s encoding, but you want to avoid the locale’s encoding, then you can first convert the translation catalog to UTF-8 using the ‘msgconv
’ program and then make ‘msgexec
’ work in an UTF-8 locale, by using the LC_ALL
environment variable.
9.10.1 Input file location
- ‘
-i inputfile
’
‘--input=inputfile
’ Input PO file.
- ‘
-D directory
’
‘--directory=directory
’ Add
directory
to the list of directories. Source files are searched relative to this list of directories. The resulting.po
file will be written relative to the current directory, though.
If no inputfile
is given or if it is ‘-
’, standard input is read.
9.10.2 Input file syntax
- ‘
-P
’
‘--properties-input
’ Assume the input file is a Java ResourceBundle in Java
.properties
syntax, not in PO file syntax.- ‘
--stringtable-input
’ Assume the input file is a NeXTstep/GNUstep localized resource file in
.strings
syntax, not in PO file syntax.
9.10.3 Informative output
- ‘
-h
’
‘--help
’ Display this help and exit.
- ‘
-V
’
‘--version
’ Output version information and exit.
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