gettxt(1)
gettxt --
retrieve a text string from a message database
Synopsis
gettxt msgfile:msgnum [dflt_msg]
Description
gettxt
retrieves a text string from a message file in the directory
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES.
The directory name
locale
corresponds to the language in which the text strings are written;
see
setlocale(3C)
and
environ(5).
msgfile-
Name of the file
from which
to retrieve
msgnum.
The name
can be up to 14 characters in length,
but may not contain either \0 (NULL)
or the
characters / (slash) or : (colon).
msgnum-
Sequence number of the string to retrieve from
msgfile.
The strings in
msgfile
are numbered sequentially from 1 to n,
where n
is the number of strings in the file.
dflt_msg-
Default string to be displayed if
gettxt fails to retrieve
msgnum
from
msgfile.
Nongraphic characters must be represented
as alphabetic escape sequences.
The text string to be retrieved is in the file
msgfile,
created by the
mkmsgs(1)
utility and installed under the directory
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES.
The directory searched is specified by the environment variable
LC_MESSAGES.
If
LC_MESSAGES
is not set,
the environment variable
LANG
will be used.
If
LANG
is not set,
the files containing the strings are
under the directory
/usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES.
If
gettxt
fails to retrieve a message in the requested language,
it will try to retrieve the same message from
/usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES/msgfile.
If this also fails, and if
dflt_msg
is present and non-empty,
then it will display the value of
dflt_msg;
if
dflt_msg
is not present or is empty, then
it will display the string
Message not found!!\n
.
If the environment variables
LANG
or
LC_MESSAGES
have not been set to
other than their default values,
gettxt UX:10 "hello world\n"
will try to retrieve the 10th message from
/usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES/UX.
If the retrieval fails,
the message
hello world
,
followed by a newline, will be displayed.
Files
/usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES/-
default message files created by
mkmsgs(1)
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES/-
language-specific message files created by
mkmsgs(1)
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES/uxcore.abi-
language-specific message file for gettxt
References
exstr(1),
gettxt(3C),
mkmsgs(1),
setlocale(3C),
srchtxt(1)
© 2004 The SCO Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 25 April 2004