gencat(1)

gencat1

Generate message catalog

Usage

gencat [OPTION ...] -o OUTPUT-FILE [INPUT-FILE ...]

Overview

The gencat program is specified in the X/Open standard and the GNU implementation follows this specification and so processes all correctly formed input files. Additionally some extension are implemented which help to work in a more reasonable way with the catgets(3) functions.

-H, --header NAME

Create C header file NAME containing symbol definitions

--new

Do not use existing catalog, force new output file

-o, --output NAME

Write output to file NAME

Releases

12 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 1.3
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7–12
  7. 13

--header since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --new since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --output since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -H since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -o since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

-h until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -lang until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -new until Debian 1.3 (Bo).

Author

gencat was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library.

This man page was written by Jeff Bailey <[email protected]>.

From libc-dev-bin 2.41-12+deb13u4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.