Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog. Finds
duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such duplicates
are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt, msgmerge or
msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged together. When using
the --repeated
option, only duplicates are output, and all other
messages are discarded. Comments and extracted comments will be
cumulated, except that if --use-first
is specified, they will be
taken from the first translation. File positions will be
cumulated. When using the --unique
option, duplicates are
discarded.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
Input file location:
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:
-d
, --repeated
print only duplicates
-u
, --unique
print only unique messages, discard duplicates
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:
-t
, --to-code
=NAME
encoding for output
--use-first
use first available translation for each message, don't
merge several translations
--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