findmsg(1)						      General Commands Manual							findmsg(1)

NAME

       findmsg, dumpmsg - create message catalog file for modification

SYNOPSIS

       sym] sym]] file ...

       file ...

DESCRIPTION

       The  command  extracts  messages from a C program source file and writes them to the standard output in a format suitable for input to (see
       gencat(1)).  The input file will be preprocessed using (see cpp(1)) in order to select print specifiers and handle conditional  primitives.
       If  multiple  input  files are specified and the option is not used, the files are processed sequentially such that message catalog comment
       lines identifying the input file are written before the output for each input file.

       The command scans the source files for uncommented lines with one of the following three formats embedded within it:

       or any combination of these formats wholly contained on a single physical line.	could be a string constant or a combination of string con-
       stants and print specifiers (PRI*).  Any number of spaces or tabs can separate the comment from the message.  The digit n, which can be any
       valid message number (see gencat(1)), is combined with the message string to produce a message catalog source  line.   The  message  source
       line  is  assigned  to  the set whose number is the current value of as set by the last directive encountered.  If has not yet been defined
       when a message line is found, the message is output without a set number specification.	If more than one message is found belonging to the
       same set and message number, the last message found is output; any others are silently discarded.  Conditional compilation and instructions
       in the C source files are ignored.

   Options
       recognizes the following command-line options:

	      Merge identically numbered sets from multiple input
			  files so that can process the output.

	      Define symbol
			  sym.

	      Cause symbol
			  sym to be undefined.

	      Consider all #ifdefs to extract messages from the input file.
			  Options and will be used to select print specifiers if this option is not used.

	      Outputs all error messages issued by
			  By default, does not display the error messages issued by

       The command extracts messages from a message catalog file created by Messages are written to standard output in a format suitable for edit-
       ing and re-input to

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       determines the interpretation of messages as single-byte and/or multi-byte characters.

       determines the language in which messages are displayed.

       If  or  is  not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
       variable.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of (see lang(5)) is used instead  of  If  any  internationalization
       variable contains an invalid setting, and behave as if all internationalization variables are set to See environ(5).

   International Code Set Support
       Single-byte and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

WARNINGS

       The and commands are HP proprietary, not portable to other vendors' systems, and will not be provided in future HP-UX releases.

AUTHOR

       and were developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       findstr(1), gencat(1), insertmsg(1), catgets(3C).

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