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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.

       -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 © 1995-2023 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-0.22.5.tar.gz fetched from
       ⟨https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/⟩ on 2024-06-14.  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 0.22.5    February 2024                   GETTEXT(1)

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