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Re: i18n of shell scripts

D. Dale Gulledge wrote:
> For what it's worth, according to the gettext manual, there is an
> interface to the gettext library for shell scripts.  It's documented here:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC197

More info about this is found in the gettext-0.14.5 manual, section
"sh - Shell Script".

> The Bash Reference Manual is similarly terse about how to use it:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#SEC13

The Bash manual only mentions the $"..." facility, but I cannot recommend
using this facility, as it has a security hole by design.

Bruno


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