msghack (1)

Leading comments

This manual page was written based on msghack --help
by Nicolas François in 2007.
It is distributed under the same license as msghack.py

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/msghack.1".)

NAME

msghack - Alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about

SYNOPSIS

msghack [OPTION] file.po [ref.po]

DESCRIPTION

msghack can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about. It can swap msgid and msgstr in a PO file, remove all translations in order to convert a translation file into a template file, and can also append the contents of one PO file to another.

OPTIONS

-o FILE

Write the result to FILE.

--invert

Invert a po file by switching msgid and msgstr.

--master

Join any number of files in a master-formatted catalog

--empty

Empty the contents of the .po file, creating a .pot.

--append

Append entries from ref.po that don't exist in file.po.