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1 .. -*- mode: rst; encoding: utf-8 -*-
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3 ======================
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4 Command-Line Interface
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5 ======================
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7 Babel includes a command-line interface for working with message catalogs,
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8 similar to the various GNU ``gettext`` tools commonly available on Linux/Unix
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9 systems.
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12 .. contents:: Contents
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13 :depth: 2
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14 .. sectnum::
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17 When properly installed, Babel provides a script called ``babel``::
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19 $ babel --help
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20 usage: babel subcommand [options] [args]
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22 options:
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23 --version show program's version number and exit
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24 -h, --help show this help message and exit
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26 subcommands:
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27 extract extract messages from source files and generate a POT file
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28 init create new message catalogs from a template
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30 The ``babel`` script provides a number of sub-commands that do the actual work.
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31 Those sub-commands are described below.
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34 extract
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35 =======
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37 The ``extract`` sub-command can be used to extract localizable messages from
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38 a collection of source files::
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40 $ babel extract --help
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41 usage: babel extract [options] dir1 <dir2> ...
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43 options:
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44 -h, --help show this help message and exit
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45 --charset=CHARSET charset to use in the output
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46 -k KEYWORDS, --keyword=KEYWORDS
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47 keywords to look for in addition to the defaults. You
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48 can specify multiple -k flags on the command line.
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49 --no-default-keywords
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50 do not include the default keywords
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51 -F MAPPING_FILE, --mapping=MAPPING_FILE
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52 path to the extraction mapping file
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53 --no-location do not include location comments with filename and
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54 line number
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55 --omit-header do not include msgid "" entry in header
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56 -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
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57 path to the output POT file
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58 -w WIDTH, --width=WIDTH
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59 set output line width (default 76)
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60 --no-wrap do not break long message lines, longer than the
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61 output line width, into several lines
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64 init
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65 ====
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67 The `init` sub-command creates a new translations catalog based on a PO
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68 template file::
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70 $ babel init --help
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71 usage: babel init [options]
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73 create new message catalogs from a template
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75 options:
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76 -h, --help show this help message and exit
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77 -D DOMAIN, --domain=DOMAIN
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78 domain of PO file (defaults to lower-cased project
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79 name)
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80 -i INPUT_FILE, --input-file=INPUT_FILE
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81 name of the input file
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82 -d OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir=OUTPUT_DIR
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83 path to output directory
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84 -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output-file=OUTPUT_FILE
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85 name of the output file (default
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86 '<output_dir>/<locale>/<domain>.po')
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87 -l LOCALE, --locale=LOCALE
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88 locale for the new localized catalog
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89 --first-author=FIRST_AUTHOR_NAME
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90 name of first author
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91 --first-author-email=FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL
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92 email of first author
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93 --project-name=NAME the project name
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94 --project-version=VERSION
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95 the project version
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