     msgexec [OPTION] COMMAND [COMMAND-OPTION]

The msgexec program applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog. The COMMAND can be any program that reads a translation from standard input.  It is invoked once for each translation.  Its output becomes msgexec's output.  msgexec's return code is the maximum return code across all invocations.

A special builtin command called 0 outputs the translation, followed by a null byte.  The output of msgexec 0 is suitable as input for xargs -0.

During each COMMAND invocation, the environment variable MSGEXEC_MSGID is bound to the message's msgid, and the environment variable MSGEXEC_LOCATION is bound to the location in the PO file of the message.

Note: It is your responsibility to ensure that the COMMAND can cope with input encoded in the translation catalog's encoding.  If the COMMAND wants input in a particular encoding, you can in a first step convert the translation catalog to that encoding using the msgconv program, before invoking msgexec.  If the COMMAND wants input in the locale's encoding, but you want to avoid the locale's encoding, then you can first convert the translation catalog to UTF-8 using the msgconv program and then make msgexec work in an UTF-8 locale, by using the LC_ALL environment variable.

Input file location
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-i INPUTFILE
--input=INPUTFILE
     Input PO file.

-D DIRECTORY
--directory=DIRECTORY
     Add DIRECTORY to the list of directories.  Source files are searched relative to this list of directories.  The resulting .po file will be written relative to the current directory, though.

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

Input file syntax
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-P
--properties-input
     Assume the input file is a Java ResourceBundle in Java .properties syntax, not in PO file syntax.

--stringtable-input
     Assume the input file is a NeXTstep/GNUstep localized resource file in .strings syntax, not in PO file syntax.

Informative output
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-h
--help
     Display this help and exit.

-V
--version
     Output version information and exit.