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pogrep

The pogrep tool extracts messages that match a regular expression into a new set of PO files that can be examined, edited and corrected. These corrections can then be merged using pomerge.

Usage

pogrep [options] <in> <out>

Where:

In and out are either directories or files. Out will contain PO/XLIFF files with only those messages that match the regular expression that was you searched for.

Options:

--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--manpage output a manpage based on the help
--progress=PROGRESS show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose
--errorlevel=ERRORLEVEL show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback
-iINPUT, --input=INPUT read from INPUT in po, pot, xlf formats (XLIFF since version 1.0)
-xEXCLUDE, --exclude=EXCLUDE exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths
-oOUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT write to OUTPUT in po, pot, xlf formats (XLIFF since version 1.0)
--psyco=MODE use psyco to speed up the operation (set mode)
--search=SEARCHPARTS searches the given parts (source, target, notes, locations)
-I, --ignore-case ignore case distinctions
-e, --regexp use regular expression matching
-v, --invert-match select non-matching lines
--accelerator=ACCELERATOR ignores the given accelerator when matching

Example

pogrep --accelerator="_" --search msgid -I -e "software|hardware" only-zu only-zu-check

Search for the words “software” or “hardware” in the msgid field. Ignore case (-I) and treat the underscore (_) character as an accelerator key. Search through all PO files in the directory “only-zu” and place any matches in PO files in the directory “only-zu-check”. This would be useful to run if you know that the word for software and hardware has been changed during the course of translation and you want to check and correct all these instances.

pogrep --search=msgid -e '^\w+(\s+\w+){0,3}$' -i templates -o short-words

Find all messages in the templates directory that have between 1 and 4 words and place them in short-words. Use this if you want to see quick results by translating messages that are most likely menu entries or dialogue labels.

pogrep --search=msgstr -I -e "Ifayile" zu zu-check

Search all translations for the occurrence of Ifayile. You would use this to check if words have been used correctly. Useful if you find problematic use of the same word for different concepts. You can use pocompendium to find these conflicts.

Notes

Unicode normalization

pogrep will normalize Unicode strings. This allows you to search for strings that contain the same character but that are using precomposed Unicode characters or which are composed using another composition recipe. While an individual user will in all likelihood only compose characters in one way, normalization ensures that data created in a team setting can be shared.

Bugs

None known