Man page 1 : msggrep

• 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.

• -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 -.

[-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

• -P, --properties-input
      input file is in Java .properties syntax
• --stringtable-input
      input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax

• --color
      use colors and other text attributes always
• --color=WHEN
      use colors and other text attributes if WHEN. WHEN may be 'always', 'never', 'auto', or 'html'.
• --style=STYLEFILE
      specify CSS style rule file for --color
• --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

• -h, --help
      display this help and exit
• -V, --version
      output version information and exit