NGETTEXT(1)                                                    GNU                                                   NGETTEXT(1)



NAME
       ngettext - translate message and choose plural form

SYNOPSIS
       ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT

DESCRIPTION
       The  ngettext  program translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the translation in a
       message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number COUNT and the language of the  mes-
       sage catalog where the translation was found.

       Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.

       -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
              retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

       -e     enable expansion of some escape sequences

       -E     (ignored for compatibility)

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -V, --version
              display version information and exit

       [TEXTDOMAIN]
              retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

       MSGID MSGID-PLURAL
              translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)

       COUNT  choose singular/plural form based on this value

       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.  Standard search directory: /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 ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and ngettext  programs  are  properly
       installed at your site, the command

              info ngettext

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU gettext-runtime 0.18.1                                  June 2010                                                NGETTEXT(1)