potool - program for manipulating gettext po files

       Potool was written by Zbigniew Chyla and is now being maintained by Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>.

                                               September 15, 2012                                      POTOOL(1)

       By default, the program re-wraps lines in all strings in the output. See the -p option.

potool works in two (so far) modes. The first mode requires providing one  file  name,  and  works  as  a
       filter. In the second mode, the program replaces the translations in FILENAME1 with the translations from
       FILENAME2.  (So FILENAME1 is the base po file, while FILENAME2 is our working copy.)

       potool x.po -s -ft
              displays the number of translated entries. See also postats(1).

       potool x.po -nstr
              Deletes all translations - so you can start from scratch! :-)

       potool x.po -ft && potool x.po -fnt
              displays  firstly the translated and then the non-translated entries from file x.po (reverse order
              is not recommended because of the first "header" entry).  The output contains all information from
              x.po, with the difference that untranslated entries are located together in a single place.

       potool x.po -fnt > tmp.po && editor tmp.po && potool x.po tmp.po
              lets you easily add new translations, without looking at the already translated entries

       The last two examples are implemented as the potooledit(1) program.

       potool - program for manipulating gettext po files

-ffilter
              Determines  which po file entries should be retained.  In the second mode, the filters are applied
              only to FILENAME2 (the working copy).  Existing filters are:
              t   - translated entries
              nt  - untranslated entries
              nth - untranslated entries and the header
              f   - fuzzy entries
              nf  - entries that are not fuzzy
              o   - obsolete entries
              no  - non-obsolete entries
              It is possible to stack filters, by specifying multiple -f options.

       -nfilter
              Determines which po file entries parts should not  be  retained.  Any  number  of  -n  options  is
              allowed. Valid parameters are:
              ctxt  - don't write 'ctxt' parts
              id    - don't write 'id' parts
              str   - don't write 'str' parts
              tr    - don't write translations
              ucmt  - don't write user's comments
              pcmt  - don't write the comments regarding position in source files
              scmt  - don't write special comments ('#, fuzzy, c-format, ...')
              dcmt  - don't write reserved comments (usually starting with a dot)
              cmt   - don't write any comments
              linf  - change source line numbers to '1'.

              The  last  parameter  is  useful  when you need to compare two po or pot files using diff(1) as it
              usually returns lots of unimportant line number changes otherwise.

       -s     Don't display the entries themselves, only their count.

       -p     causes potool to keep the formatting of the file intact. Without this option, all strings will  be
              re-wrapped in the output at newlines or word boundaries to fit in 80 columns.

       -c     Overwrite all msgstrs with their msgids.

       -h     Display short usage help.

potooledit(1), postats(1), msgmerge(1), msgfmt(1).

potool        FILENAME1        [        FILENAME2        ]        [-f       f|nf|t|nt|nth|o|no]       [-n
       ctxt|id|str|cmt|ucmt|pcmt|scmt|dcmt|tr|linf]...  [-s] [-p] [-c]

       potool -h