MSGHACK(1)

💖 NAME 💖

msghack — alter PO files in ways ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

msghack [OPTION] file.po [ref.po]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so bestie, sit down, hydrate, and hear me out: this program can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about 💅 like, that's not me being dramatic, that is the actual energy of this thing, and honestly? obsessed.

here's the whole menu, no gatekeeping 🫶

• -o — result will be written to FILE
• --invert — invert a po file by switching msgid and msgstr (yes it really just swaps them, main character move)
• --master — join any number of files in a master-formatted catalog
• --empty — empty the contents of the .po file, creating a .pot (iconic little transformation ✨)
• --append — append entries from ref.po that don't exist in file.po

Note: It is just a replacement of msghack for backward support.

okay and now the part where the original page literally says all of that again — not me, it's right there in the source, fr fr, and I am not about to skip anything on you. so here it is, one more time, no cap:

This program can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about 💅

• -o — result will be written to FILE
• --invert — invert a po file by switching msgid and msgstr
• --master — join any number of files in a master-formatted catalog
• --empty — empty the contents of the .po file, creating a .pot
• --append — append entries from ref.po that don't exist in file.po

Note: It is just a replacement of msghack for backward support.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 it's msghack, dated June 2013, and it lives at MSGHACK(1) in the manual. go forth and alter those PO files in ways no sane mind would think about, periodt 💜🎀