---
name: "rmsgcat"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ruby-gettext"
version: "3.4.9-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rmsgcat"
---

# rmsgcat(1)

concatenates and merges PO files

## NAME

rmsgcat - concatenates and merges PO files

## SYNOPSIS

**rmsgcat** \[*OPTIONS*\] *PO\_FILE1 PO\_FILE2* ...

## DESCRIPTION

Concatenates and merges PO files.

### Specific options:

- **-o**, **--output**=*FILE*

  Write output to specified file (default: the standard output)

- **--sort-by-msgid**

  Sort output by msgid

- **--sort-by-location**

  Sort output by location

- **--sort-by-file**

  Sort output by location It is same as **--sort-by-location** Just for GNU gettext's msgcat compatibility

- **--\[no-\]sort-output**

  Sort output by msgid It is same as **--sort-by-msgid** Just for GNU gettext's msgcat compatibility

- **--no-location**

  Remove location information

- **--no-all-comments**

  Remove all comments

- **--width**=*WIDTH*

  Set output page width (78)

- **--\[no-\]wrap**

  Break long message lines, longer than the output page width, into several lines (true)

- **--no-fuzzy**

  Ignore fuzzy entries

- **--no-report-warning**

  Don't report warning messages

- **--no-obsolete-entries**

  Don't output obsolete entries

- **--remove-header-field**=*FIELD*

  Remove FIELD from header Specify this option multiple times to remove multiple header fields

## AUTHOR

This manual page was created by Hleb Valoshka \<375gnu@gmail.com\>, using program help2man.