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## NAME

msgcat - combines several message catalogs

## SYNOPSIS

msgcat.exe [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...

## DESCRIPTION

Concatenates and merges the specified PO files. Find messages which are common to two or more of the speci- fied 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 --color=WHEN |  | use colors and other text attributes always 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 -E, --escape --force-po -i, --indent --no-location -n, --add-location |  | do not use C escapes in output (default) use C escapes in output, no extended chars write PO file even if empty write the .po file using indented style do not write '#: filename:line' lines 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

## AUTHOR

Written by Bruno Haible.

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permit- ted by law.

## SEE ALSO

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

info msgcat.exe

should give you access to the complete manual.