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GETTEXT(1)                    User Commands                    GETTEXT(1)

NAME         top

       gettext - translate message

SYNOPSIS         top

       gettext [OPTION] [[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID]
       gettext [OPTION] -s [MSGID]...

DESCRIPTION         top

       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:
       -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
              retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN

       -c, --context=CONTEXT
              specify context for MSGID

       -e     enable expansion of some escape sequences

       -n     suppress trailing newline

       -E     (ignored for compatibility)

       [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID
              retrieve translated message corresponding to MSGID from
              TEXTDOMAIN

   Informative output:
       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -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/local/share/locale

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       Report bugs in the bug tracker at
       <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to
       <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 1995-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License
       GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
       <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO         top

       The full documentation for gettext is maintained as a Texinfo
       manual.  If the info and gettext programs are properly installed
       at your site, the command

              info gettext

       should give you access to the complete manual.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the gettext (message translation) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, see
       ⟨http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext/⟩.  This page was
       obtained from the tarball gettext-0.26.tar.gz fetched from
       ⟨https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/⟩ on 2025-08-11.  If you discover
       any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
       or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
       mail to man-pages@man7.org

GNU gettext-runtime 0.26        July 2025                      GETTEXT(1)

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