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NGETTEXT

Section: FSF (1)
Updated: April 2001
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NAME

ngettext - print out string using translation with singular/plural  

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

The ngettext program prints out a translation. It chooses between the singular and plural forms according to the COUNT parameter.
-d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN
-e
enable expansion of some escape sequences
-E
(ignored for compatibility)
-h, --help
display a help message 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 message 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-utils@gnu.org>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

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.

On Debian, the manual is also available in HTML format in the gettext-doc package.


 

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