SWAPPO(1)

💅 SWAPPO — the manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so bestie, you know how sometimes you're staring at a .po file and you're like "the vibes are immaculate but the direction is giving wrong"?? yeah. that's what swappo is for. it's the section 1 (general commands) girlie in your toolbox and she is iconic**.

🌸 NAME 🌸

swappo — swap msgid and msgstr fields in a PO file 🔄💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

swappo [filename.po]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓. swappo reads the PO-file you hand it and swaps the msgid and msgstr fields for every single message. no skips, no favourites, all of them. the glow-up result is a new PO-file that translates in the opposite direction. like, if your PO-file was translating from English to French, the new PO-file will translate from French to English. it's giving reverse uno card 🃏✨

the new PO-file gets written to standard output — that's stdout, so pipe it or redirect it, bestie, don't just let it fly into your terminal and vibe there. and the good news?? the old PO-file stays completely untouched 🫶. no cap. nothing gets overwritten behind your back.

heads up 💀: because it writes to standard output, if you forget to redirect, you'll just be watching your entire PO-file scroll past like it's a group chat you weren't invited to.

this utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• po2xml(1)
• split2po(1)
• xml2pot(1)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the PO-XML tools were written by Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org> — literal main character energy, thank you for your service 💜

this manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> 🎀

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> Author.

okay and for the cute sign-off: this page lives in [FIXME: source], dated 2003-04-07, and it's filed under SWAPPO(1) in section 1 🧚💖 periodt, go swap some strings bestie, you got this ✨