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MSGCAT(1) User Commands MSGCAT(1)
msgcat - combines several message catalogs
msgcat [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...
Concatenates and merges the specified PO files. Find messages
which are common to two or more of the specified PO files. By
using the --more-than option, greater commonality may be requested
before messages are printed. Conversely, the --less-than option
may be used to specify less commonality before messages are
printed (i.e. --less-than=2 will only print the unique messages).
Translations, comments, extracted comments, and file positions
will be cumulated, except that if --use-first is specified, they
will be taken from the first PO file to define them.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
Input file location:
INPUTFILE ...
input files
-f, --files-from=FILE
get list of input files from FILE
-D, --directory=DIRECTORY
add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
If input file is -, standard input is read.
Output file location:
-o, --output-file=FILE
write output to specified file
The results are written to standard output if no output file is
specified or if it is -.
Message selection:
-<, --less-than=NUMBER
print messages with less than this many definitions,
defaults to infinite if not set
->, --more-than=NUMBER
print messages with more than this many definitions,
defaults to 0 if not set
-u, --unique
shorthand for --less-than=2, requests that only unique
messages be printed
Input file syntax:
-P, --properties-input
input files are in Java .properties syntax
--stringtable-input
input files are in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax
Output details:
-t, --to-code=NAME
encoding for output
--use-first
use first available translation for each message, don't
merge several translations
--lang=CATALOGNAME
set 'Language' field in the header entry
--color
use colors and other text attributes always
--color=WHEN
use colors and other text attributes if WHEN. WHEN may be
'always', 'never', 'auto', or 'html'.
--style=STYLEFILE
specify CSS style rule file for --color
-e, --no-escape
do not use C escapes in output (default)
-E, --escape
use C escapes in output, no extended chars
--force-po
write PO file even if empty
-i, --indent
write the .po file using indented style
--no-location
do not write '#: filename:line' lines
-n, --add-location
generate '#: filename:line' lines (default)
--strict
write out strict Uniforum conforming .po file
-p, --properties-output
write out a Java .properties file
--stringtable-output
write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings file
-w, --width=NUMBER
set output page width
--no-wrap
do not break long message lines, longer than the output
page width, into several lines
-s, --sort-output
generate sorted output
-F, --sort-by-file
sort output by file location
Informative output:
-h, --help
display this help and exit
-V, --version
output version information and exit
Written by Bruno Haible.
Report bugs in the bug tracker at
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to
<bug-gettext@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2001-2025 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.
The full documentation for msgcat is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and msgcat programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info msgcat
should give you access to the complete manual.
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-tools 0.26 July 2025 MSGCAT(1)
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