gettext — Retrieve Text String from Message Database
Synopsis
/usr/bin/gettext [textdomain] msgid
Description
gettext retrieves a translated text string corresponding to string msgid from a message object generated with msgfmt(1). The message object name is derived from the optional argument textdomain if present; otherwise, from the TEXTDOMAIN environment. If you specify no domain or if a corresponding string cannot be found, gettext prints msgid .
Ordinarily gettext looks for its message object in /usr/lib/locale/lang /LC_MESSAGES where lang is the locale name. If present, the TEXTDOMAINDIR environment variable replaces the path name component up to lang .
This command interprets C escape sequences such as \t for Tab. Use \\ to print a ...
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