Re: Using gettext in scripts

[Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@ieeesb.etsit.upm.es>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:58:52AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> maybe someone here can point me to some good manual on how to
> use gettext on shell scripts?
> 
	Ussing gettext is easy. Check out the euro-support's euro-test
script which uses gettext (and I did not have the least idea how to do it
before I implemented it). Just call in the shell script:

gettext "my message"

after defining the domain for gettext.

Gettext extraction is not that difficult, I hacked a perl script in ~5 min
which would make the neccessary .pot for translation. It's in the sources
but is quite simple:

#!/usr/bin/perl -n

$count++;
if (/gettext.*?"(.*?)"/ ) {
        print "#at line $count\nmsgid \"$1\"\nmsgstr \"\"\n";
}

Just do 'cat file.sh | perl script' 

	Regards

	Javi