User Commands gettxt(1)
NAME
gettxt - retrieve a text string from a message database
SYNOPSIS
gettxt msgfile : msgnum [dfltmsg]
DESCRIPTION
gettxt retrieves a text string from a message file in the
directory /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESAGES . The directory
name locale corresponds to the language in which the text
strings are written; see setlocale(3C).
msgfile Name of the file in the directory
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESAGES to retrieve
msgnum from. The name of msgfile can be up to
14 characters in length, but may not contain
either \0 (null) or the ASCI code for /
(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.
dfltmsg 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/LCMESAGES . You control
which directory is searched by setting the environment vari-
able LCMESAGES. If LCMESAGES 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/LCMESAGES .
If gettxt fails to retrieve a message in the requested
language, it will try to retrieve the same message from
/usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESAGES/ msgfile. If this also fails,
and if dfltmsg is present and non-null, then it will
display the value of dfltmsg; if dfltmsg is not present or
is null, then it will display the string Message not
found!!.
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EXAMPLES
Example 1 The environment variables LANG and LCMESAGES.
If the environment variables LANG or LCMESAGES have not
been set to other than their default values, the following
example:
example% gettxt UX:10 "hello world\n"
will try to retrieve the 10th message from
/usr/lib/locale/C/UX/msgfile. If the retrieval fails, the
message "hello world," followed by a newline, will be
displayed.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
variables that affect the execution of gettxt: LCTYPE and
LCMESAGES.
LCTYPE Determines how gettxt handles characters.
When LCTYPE is set to a valid value,
gettxt can display and handle text and
filenames containing valid characters for
that locale. gettxt can display and handle
Extended Unix Code (EUC) characters where
any individual character can be 1, 2, or 3
bytes wide. gettxt can also handle EUC char-
acters of 1, 2, or more column widths. In
the "C" locale, only characters from ISO
8859-1 are valid.
LCMESAGES Determines how diagnostic and informative
messages are presented. This includes the
language and style of the messages, and the
correct form of affirmative and negative
responses. In the "C" locale, the messages
are presented in the default form found in
the program itself (in most cases, U.S.
English).
FILES
/usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESAGES/*
default message files created by mkmsgs(1)
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/usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESAGES/*
message files for different languages created by
mkmsgs(1)
ATRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
ATRIBUTE TYPE ATRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWloc
CSI Enabled
SEE ALSO
exstr(1), mkmsgs(1), srchtxt(1), gettxt(3C), setlocale(3C),
attributes(5), environ(5)
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