GENCAT(1)

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version 2.44 · 6 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay so meet gencat 🎀, the tool that generates a message catalog 💖. it's giving organized vibes fr

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gencat [OPTION ...] -o OUTPUT-FILE [INPUT-FILE ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the gencat program is part of the X/Open standard, and the GNU version follows that spec to the letter 📜✨ which means it handles every correctly formed input file no cap 🫶 it also has some extra features that make it way easier to vibe with the catgets(3) functions 🦋

  • -H, --header NAME: makes a C header file called NAME with all the symbol definitions inside 🧚
  • --new: skips the existing catalog and forces a brand new output file 🔥
  • -o, --output NAME: writes the output to a file called NAME 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

gencat was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library 🌈 the icon behind it 😭

this man page was written by Jeff Bailey <jbailey@debian.org> 🍓 literally a legend, bestie

bestie that's the whole tea 🫖💖 this page came from the Debian crew, 3rd Berkeley Distribution, November 2003 🎀 now go be iconic ✨🧚

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