---
name: "poterminology"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "translate-toolkit"
version: "3.15.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/poterminology"
---

# poterminology(1)

Create a terminology file by reading a set of .po or .pot files to produce a pootle-terminology.pot.

## NAME

poterminology -  Create a terminology file by reading a set of .po or .pot files to produce a pootle-terminology.pot.

## SYNOPSIS

**poterminology** \[**--version**\] \[**-h**\|**--help**\] \[**--manpage**\] \[**--progress** *PROGRESS*\] \[**--errorlevel** *ERRORLEVEL*\] \[**-i**\|**--input**\] *INPUT* \[**-x**\|**--exclude** *EXCLUDE*\] \[**-o**\|**--output**\] *OUTPUT* \[**-u**\|**--update** *UPDATEFILE*\] \[**-S**\|**--stopword-list** *STOPFILE*\] \[**-F**\|**--fold-titlecase**\] \[**-C**\|**--preserve-case**\] \[**-I**\|**--ignore-case**\] \[**--accelerator** *ACCELERATORS*\] \[**-t**\|**--term-words** *LENGTH*\] \[**--nonstop-needed** *MIN*\] \[**--inputs-needed** *MIN*\] \[**--fullmsg-needed** *MIN*\] \[**--substr-needed** *MIN*\] \[**--locs-needed** *MIN*\] \[**--sort** *ORDER*\] \[**--source-language** *LANG*\] \[**-v**\|**--invert**\]

## DESCRIPTION

See: http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/translate-toolkit/en/latest/commands/poterminology.html for examples and usage instructions.

## OPTIONS

- \--version

  show program's version number and exit

- \-h/--help

  show this help message and exit

- \--manpage

  output a manpage based on the help

- \--progress

  show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

- \--errorlevel

  show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

- \-i/--input

  read from INPUT in po, pot formats

- \-x/--exclude

  exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

- \-o/--output

  write to OUTPUT in po, pot formats

- \-u/--update

  update terminology in UPDATEFILE

- \-S/--stopword-list

  read stopword (term exclusion) list from STOPFILE (default /usr/share/pyshared/translate/share/stoplist-en)

- \-F/--fold-titlecase

  fold "Title Case" to lowercase (default)

- \-C/--preserve-case

  preserve all uppercase/lowercase

- \-I/--ignore-case

  make all terms lowercase

- \--accelerator

  ignore the given accelerator characters when matching

- \-t/--term-words

  generate terms of up to LENGTH words (default 3)

- \--nonstop-needed

  omit terms with less than MIN nonstop words (default 1)

- \--inputs-needed

  omit terms appearing in less than MIN input files (default 2, or 1 if only one input file)

- \--fullmsg-needed

  omit full message terms appearing in less than MIN different messages (default 1)

- \--substr-needed

  omit substring-only terms appearing in less than MIN different messages (default 2)

- \--locs-needed

  omit terms appearing in less than MIN different original source files (default 2)

- \--sort

  output sort order(s): frequency, dictionary, length (may repeat option, default is all in above order)

- \--source-language

  the source language code (default 'en')

- \-v/--invert

  invert the source and target languages for terminology