rmsgfmt(1)

✨ rmsgfmt(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is rmsgfmt, a lil tool from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix box, and it's literally here to do one iconic thing: turn your message catalog into binary format. 💅 no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

rmsgfmt — compile message catalog to binary format 🎀

like. it compiles. it's a compiler. for message catalogs. the name literally ate and left no crumbs.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rmsgfmt input.po [ -o output.mo ]

so you hand it an input.po and you can optionally tell it where to drop the output.mo with -o. the brackets mean optional, bestie, not "maybe i'll do it maybe i won't, it's giving ✨mysterious✨". it's just optional. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: you've got a textual translation description (that's your .po file, the human-readable one, the one you can actually open and read without crying 😭) and you need the binary message catalog version of it.

that's the whole vibe. rmsgfmt generates the binary message catalog from the textual translation description. text goes in, binary comes out, nobody gets hurt, everything slays. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• msgfmt(1) — the classic one, the OG, iykyk
• /usr/share/doc/ruby-gettext/README.rdoc — the deep lore is in here fr fr
• http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-translate.html — yotabanana dot com, iconic URL, no notes 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was converted by Tatsuki Sugiura <sugi@nemui.org>, from the README, for the Debian project. shoutout to them, they did that. 🫶✨

lowkey important: everything above is exactly as it was written, just... with more sparkle. the facts didn't change, bestie, only the aura did. 💀

and that's the whole page!! 🎀 this little cutie is from the General Commands Manual, dated 2003-07-17, and it's the rmsgfmt(1) page in all its glory. mwah, go compile something gorgeous, you main character. 💖🦋🌸✨