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<h1 align=center>GETTEXT</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
<a href="#REPORTING BUGS">REPORTING BUGS</a><br>
<a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>

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gettext - translate message</td></table>
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<b>gettext</b> [<i>OPTION</i>] [[<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i>]
<i>MSGID</i>]<b><br>
gettext</b> [<i>OPTION</i>] <i>-s</i>
[<i>MSGID</i>]...</td></table>
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The <b>gettext</b> program translates a natural language
message into the user's language, by looking up the
translation in a message catalog.</td></table>

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Display native language translation of a textual
message.</td></table>

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<b>-d</b>, <b>--domain</b>=<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i></td></table>

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retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN</td></table>

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<b>-e</b></td></table>

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enable expansion of some escape sequences</td></table>

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<b>-E</b></td></table>

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(ignored for compatibility)</td></table>

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<b>-h</b>, <b>--help</b></td></table>

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display this help and exit</td></table>

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<b>-n</b></td></table>

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suppress trailing newline</td></table>

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<b>-V</b>, <b>--version</b></td></table>

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display version information and exit</td></table>

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[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID</td></table>

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retrieve translated message corresponding to MSGID from
TEXTDOMAIN</td></table>

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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 <b>-s</b> 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/share/locale</td></table>
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Written by Ulrich Drepper.</td></table>
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Report bugs to &lt;bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org&gt;.</td></table>
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Copyright 1995-1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.<br>
This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.</td></table>
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The full documentation for <b>gettext</b> is maintained as a
Texinfo manual. If the <b>info</b> and <b>gettext</b>
programs are properly installed at your site, the
command</td></table>

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<b>info gettext</b></td></table>

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should give you access to the complete manual.</td></table>
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