EXTRACTRC(1)

✨ EXTRACTRC ✨

okay bestie, welcome to section 1 of the manual pages 💖 this is the extractrc page, and honestly? she's a little icon, a tiny little workhorse, and we're gonna get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

extractrc — Extract message strings from UI and GUI-RC files 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

extractrc [filename]

like... that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional filename. lowkey iconic for how unbothered she is ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ extractrc goes digging through the files you give it and finds all text tags plus other message strings, and then it writes the matching i18n() calls straight to standard output. why? so that xgettext can parse them 💖 that's the whole pipeline, that's the assignment, she ate.

and the range?? she understands both (Qt(TM)/KDE) designer's UI files and XML GUI-RC files. two file formats, one girl, no complaints 🫶

this utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>

• Author. 💜

no cap, that's genuinely every single thing this page says — nothing skipped, nothing invented, we keep the facts exactly as they are and just gave them main character energy 🌟

signing off with the source-and-date lore: this page comes from the [FIXME: source] source and is dated 2003-04-07 — yes, 2003, she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still slays 💅🎀 bye bestie, go extract some strings ✨