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MSGPRE(1) User Commands MSGPRE(1)
msgpre - pretranslate a message catalog
msgpre [OPTION...]
Pretranslates a translation catalog.
Warning: The pretranslations might not be what you expect. They
might be of the wrong form, be of poor quality, or reflect some
biases.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
Input file location:
-i, --input=INPUTFILE
input PO file
-D, --directory=DIRECTORY
add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
If no input file is given or if it 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:
--keep-fuzzy
Keep fuzzy messages unmodified. Pretranslate only
untranslated messages.
Large Language Model (LLM) options:
--species=TYPE
Specifies the type of LLM. The default and only valid
value is 'ollama'.
--url=URL
Specifies the URL of the server that runs the LLM.
-m, --model=MODEL
Specifies the model to use.
--prompt=TEXT
Specifies the prompt to use before standard input.
--postprocess=COMMAND
Specifies a command to post-process the output.
Input file syntax:
-P, --properties-input
input file is in Java .properties syntax
--stringtable-input
input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax
Output details:
--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
--force-po
write PO file even if empty
--indent
indented output style
--no-location
suppress '#: filename:line' lines
-n, --add-location
preserve '#: filename:line' lines (default)
--strict
strict Uniforum output style
-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
-q, --quiet, --silent
suppress progress indicators
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 © 2001-2026 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 msgpre is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and msgpre programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info msgpre
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-1.0.tar.gz fetched from
⟨https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/⟩ on 2026-05-24. 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 1.0 January 2026 MSGPRE(1)
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