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 grammatical 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/local/share/locale

AUTHOR
       Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C)  1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Founda-
       tion, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL  version  3  or  later
       
       This  is  free software: you are free to change and redis-
       tribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
       by law.

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.



GNU gettext-runtime 0.17  November 2007               NGETTEXT(1)