GETTEXT(1)                                                     GNU                                                    GETTEXT(1)



NAME
       gettext - translate message

SYNOPSIS
       gettext [OPTION] [[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID]
       gettext [OPTION] -s [MSGID]...

DESCRIPTION
       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

       -e     enable expansion of some escape sequences

       -E     (ignored for compatibility)

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -n     suppress trailing newline

       -V, --version
              display version information and exit

       [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID
              retrieve translated message corresponding to MSGID from TEXTDOMAIN

       If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN.  If the mes-
       sage  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 direc-
       tory: /usr/share/locale

AUTHOR
       Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettextATgnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007  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 permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       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.



GNU gettext-runtime 0.18.1                                  June 2010                                                 GETTEXT(1)