GETTEXTIZE(1)

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version 1.0 · 11 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💖 GETTEXTIZE 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Commands part of the manual — it's gettextize(1), and it's literally the glow-up artist for your source package's translation setup. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gettextize — install or upgrade gettext infrastructure

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gettextize [OPTION]... [package-dir]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Prepares a source package to use gettext. that's it, that's the whole vibe — it walks into your package and sets up all the gettext scaffolding so your software can speak every language. iconic behavior honestly 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --help — print this help and exit. short king of a flag, shows you the menu and dips ✨
  • --version — print version information and exit. who are you? what's your era? it tells you 🦋
  • -f, --force — force writing of new files even if old exist. yes it will absolutely overwrite the old ones, no hesitation, no mercy 🔥
  • --po-dir=DIR — specify directory with PO files. you tell it DIR, it goes there for your .po files 📁
  • --no-changelog — don't update or create ChangeLog files. leaving them exactly as they are, not touching, hands off 🙈
  • --symlink — make symbolic links instead of copying files. links > copies, it's giving efficiency 💜
  • -n, --dry-run — print modifications but don't perform them. a rehearsal, not the performance — it tells you everything it would do and then does absolutely nothing 😭
lowkey -n is the move if you're nervous. peek before you commit, bestie 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Ulrich Drepper and Bruno Haible. legends, fr fr 💖

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs in the bug tracker at <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.

found something cursed? don't suffer in silence, tell the tracker or send an email, they wanna know ⭐

Copyright © 1995-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

no cap, that NO WARRANTY part is in all caps for a reason — it's free, it's yours to remix, but nobody's covering you if it goes sideways 💀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The full documentation for gettextize is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and gettextize programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info gettextize

should give you access to the complete manual. the whole extended lore, the director's cut, everything 🧚

okay that's the whole page!! this one's from GNU gettext-tools 1.0, dated January 2026 — so yeah, fresh, current, main character energy. go forth and internationalize, bestie 🎀💖✨

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