info gettext

  [-N sourcefile]... [-M domainname]...
  [-J msgctxt-pattern] [-K msgid-pattern] [-T msgstr-pattern]
  [-C comment-pattern]

A message is selected if

it comes from one of the specified source files,
or if it comes from one of the specified domains,
or if ‘-J’ is given and its context (msgctxt) matches msgctxt-pattern,
or if ‘-K’ is given and its key (msgid or msgid_plural) matches msgid-pattern,
or if ‘-T’ is given and its translation (msgstr) matches msgstr-pattern,
or if ‘-C’ is given and the translator’s comment matches comment-pattern.

When more than one selection criterion is specified, the set of selected messages is the union of the selected messages of each criterion.

msgctxt-pattern or msgid-pattern or msgstr-pattern syntax:

  [-E | -F] [-e pattern | -f file]...

patterns are basic regular expressions by default, or extended regular expressions if -E is given, or fixed strings if -F is given.

‘-N sourcefile’
‘--location=sourcefile’: Select messages extracted from sourcefile. sourcefile can be either a literal file name or a wildcard pattern.
‘-M domainname’
‘--domain=domainname’: Select messages belonging to domain domainname.
‘-J’
‘--msgctxt’: Start of patterns for the msgctxt.
‘-K’
‘--msgid’: Start of patterns for the msgid.
‘-T’
‘--msgstr’: Start of patterns for the msgstr.
‘-C’
‘--comment’: Start of patterns for the translator’s comment.
‘-X’
‘--extracted-comment’: Start of patterns for the extracted comments.
‘-E’
‘--extended-regexp’: Specify that pattern is an extended regular expression.
‘-F’
‘--fixed-strings’: Specify that pattern is a set of newline-separated strings.
‘-e pattern’
‘--regexp=pattern’: Use pattern as a regular expression.
‘-f file’
‘--file=file’: Obtain pattern from file.
‘-i’
‘--ignore-case’: Ignore case distinctions.
‘-v’
‘--invert-match’: Output only the messages that do not match any selection criterion, instead of the messages that match a selection criterion.

This document was generated on August 27, 2013 using texi2html 5.0.