# MSGGREP

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## NAME

| msggrep - pattern matching on message catalog

## SYNOPSIS

| msggrep [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]

## DESCRIPTION

| Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a given pattern or belong to some given source files.

| Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

| Input file location:

| INPUTFILE

| input PO file

| -D, --directory=DIRECTORY

| add DIRECTORY to list for input files search

| If no input file is given or if it is -, standard input is read.

| Output file location:

| -o, --output-file=FILE

| write output to specified file

| The results are written to standard output if no output file is specified or if it is -.

| Message selection:

| [-N SOURCEFILE]... [-M DOMAINNAME]... [-J MSGCTXT-PATTERN] [-K MSGID-PATTERN] [-T MSGSTR-PATTERN] [-C COMMENT-PATTERN] [-X EXTRACTED-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, or if -X is given and the extracted comment matches EXTRACTED-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 or COMMENT-PATTERN or EXTRACTED-COMMENT-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, --location=SOURCEFILE

| select messages extracted from SOURCEFILE

| -M, --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 comment

| -E, --extended-regexp

| PATTERN is an extended regular expression

| -F, --fixed-strings

| PATTERN is a set of newline-separated strings

| -e, --regexp=PATTERN

| use PATTERN as a regular expression

| -f, --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

| Input file syntax:

| -P, --properties-input

| input file is in Java .properties syntax

| --stringtable-input

| input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax

| Output details:

| --no-escape

| do not use C escapes in output (default)

| --escape

| use C escapes in output, no extended chars

| --force-po

| write PO file even if empty

| --indent

| indented output style

| --no-location

| suppress '#: filename:line' lines

| --add-location

| preserve '#: filename:line' lines (default)

| --strict

| strict Uniforum output style

| -p, --properties-output

| write out a Java .properties file

| --stringtable-output

| write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings file

| -w, --width=NUMBER

| set output page width

| --no-wrap

| do not break long message lines, longer than the output page width, into several lines

| --sort-output

| generate sorted output

| --sort-by-file

| sort output by file location

| Informative output:

| -h, --help

| display this help and exit

| -V, --version

| output version information and exit

## AUTHOR

| Written by Bruno Haible.

## REPORTING BUGS

| Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

## COPYRIGHT

| Copyright 2001-2007 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 msggrep is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and msggrep programs are properly installed at your site, the command

| info msggrep

| should give you access to the complete manual.