ngettext - translate message and choose plural form
ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT
NGETTEXT(1) GNU NGETTEXT(1) NAME ngettext - translate message and choose plural form SYNOPSIS ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT DESCRIPTION The ngettext program translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number COUNT and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found. Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammat- ical form depends on a number. -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN -e enable expansion of some escape sequences -E (ignored for compatibility) -h, --help display this help and exit -V, --version display version information and exit [TEXTDOMAIN] retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN MSGID MSGID-PLURAL translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural) COUNT choose singular/plural form based on this value If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN. If the message catalog is not found in the regular directory, another location can be specified with the environment variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale AUTHOR Written by Ulrich Drepper. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | text/gnu-gettext | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+------------------+ SEE ALSO The full documentation for ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ngettext programs are properly installed at your site, the command info ngettext should give you access to the complete manual. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/get- text-0.19.8.tar.xz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext. GNU gettext-runtime 0.19.8 June 2016 NGETTEXT(1)