gettext1
Translate message
Usage
gettext [OPTION]
[[TEXTDOMAIN]
MSGID]
gettext [OPTION]
-s
[MSGID] ...
Overview
The gettext program translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog.
Display native language translation of a textual message.
Options and arguments:
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-d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN -
retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN
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-c, --context=CONTEXT -
specify context for MSGID
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-e -
enable expansion of some escape sequences
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-n -
suppress trailing newline
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-E -
(ignored for compatibility)
- [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID
-
retrieve translated message corresponding to MSGID from TEXTDOMAIN
Informative output:
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-h, --help -
display this help and exit
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-V, --version -
display version information and exit
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. When used with the -s option the program behaves like the 'echo' command. But it does not simply copy its arguments to stdout. Instead those messages found in the selected catalog are translated. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale
Releases
15 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 12 times.
--context since Debian 11 (Bullseye);
--domain since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
--help since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
--version since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-E since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-V since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-c since Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-d since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-e since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-h since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-n since Debian 3.0 (Woody).