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15.5.2.3 Invoking the ‘gettext’ program
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     gettext [OPTION] [[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID]
     gettext [OPTION] -s [MSGID]...

   The ‘gettext’ program displays the native language translation of a
textual message.

*Arguments*

‘-d TEXTDOMAIN’
‘--domain=TEXTDOMAIN’
     Retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN.  Usually a TEXTDOMAIN
     corresponds to a package, a program, or a module of a program.

‘-e’
     Enable expansion of some escape sequences.  This option is for
     compatibility with the ‘echo’ program or shell built-in.  The
     escape sequences ‘\a’, ‘\b’, ‘\c’, ‘\f’, ‘\n’, ‘\r’, ‘\t’, ‘\v’,
     ‘\\’, and ‘\’ followed by one to three octal digits, are
     interpreted like the System V ‘echo’ program did.

‘-E’
     This option is only for compatibility with the ‘echo’ program or
     shell built-in.  It has no effect.

‘-h’
‘--help’
     Display this help and exit.

‘-n’
     Suppress trailing newline.  By default, ‘gettext’ adds a newline to
     the output.

‘-V’
‘--version’
     Output version information and exit.

‘[TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID’
     Retrieve translated message corresponding to MSGID from TEXTDOMAIN.

   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’.

   When used with the ‘-s’ option the program behaves like the ‘echo’
command.  But it does not simply copy its arguments to stdout.  Instead
those messages found in the selected catalog are translated.

   Note: ‘xgettext’ supports only the one-argument form of the ‘gettext’
invocation, where no options are present and the TEXTDOMAIN is implicit,
from the environment.