tsmarty2c(1)

✨ tsmarty2c ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to tsmarty2c(1) — it lives in section 1 of the manual, and its official vibe is "Smarty Gettext Translation String Ripper." Which is a whole mouthful but also kind of iconic? Anyway. Let's get into it. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tsmarty2c — rips translation strings out of your smarty template files and turns them into gettext calls in C. yes really, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tsmarty2c <templ-file1-or-dir1> \
          [<templ-file2-or-dir2>] \
          [... <templ-fileN-or-dirN>]

so you just keep feeding her files or directories, as many as you want, no cap. 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea ☕ — tsmarty2c rips the translation strings straight out of your smarty template files, and converts them into gettext calls in C. It's giving "middle man, but make it useful." 🧚

The C output it produces? You can use that later with the standard gettext tools — go look at xgettext, that's the one you want. (See the SEE ALSO section, bestie, I got you. 🫶)

Here's the part that lowkey slays: if one of the parameters you pass is a directory, then all the template files inside it get parsed recursively. She goes deep. She finds everything. Main character energy fr. 💜

The output also contains comments that point to the location of the file that the string has been ripped from. So you always know where every string came from — traceability, we love to see it. ⭐

And here's a little tip that's actually in the manpage, not me making stuff up: you can use the --add-comments parameter of xgettext to make it include these comments inside the PO file. (This one was suggested by Mike van Lammeren — shoutout to him, king behavior. 👑)

Quick reminder: this page doesn't list any options or flags for tsmarty2c itself — it's just the positional file/directory arguments. Don't go looking for extras that aren't there, babe. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xgettext(1) — go read this one next, it's the sequel. 💫

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This manual was written for the Debian project (and hey, it may be used by others too — sharing is caring 🌸) by Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>. Thank you for your service, Mike. 🫡✨

okay that's the whole page, you ate that. This was Version 1.0, from July 2012 — a vintage, honestly, and she still holds up. periodt. 💅🦋🎀