NGETTEXT(1) GNU NGETTEXT(1)
NAME
ngettext - translate message and choose plural form
SYNOPSIS
ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT
DESCRIPTION
The ngettext program translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the trans‐
lation in a message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number COUNT and
the language of the message catalog where the translation was found.
Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.
-d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN
-e enable expansion of some escape sequences
-E (ignored for compatibility)
-h, --help
display this help 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 envi‐
ronment variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale
AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2007 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 per‐
mitted by law.
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
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