1gettxt(1)                        User Commands                       gettxt(1)
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NAME

6       gettxt - retrieve a text string from a message database
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SYNOPSIS

9       gettxt msgfile : msgnum [dflt_msg]
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DESCRIPTION

13       gettxt  retrieves  a  text  string from a message file in the directory
14       /usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES . The directory name  locale  corre‐
15       sponds  to the language in which the text strings are written; see set‐
16       locale(3C).
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18       msgfile      Name     of     the     file     in     the      directory
19                    /usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES    to  retrieve  msgnum
20                    from. The name of msgfile can be up to  14  characters  in
21                    length,  but may not contain either \0 (null) or the ASCII
22                    code for / (slash) or : (colon).
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25       msgnum       Sequence number of the string to  retrieve  from  msgfile.
26                    The strings in msgfile are numbered sequentially from 1 to
27                    n, where n is the number of strings in the file.
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31                    msgnum  from msgfile. Nongraphic characters must be repre‐
32                    sented as alphabetic escape sequences.
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36       The text string to be retrieved is in the file msgfile, created by  the
37       mkmsgs(1)     utility     and    installed    under    the    directory
38       /usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES   . You control which  directory  is
39       searched  by  setting  the environment variable LC_MESSAGES. If LC_MES‐
40       SAGES is not set, the environment variable LANG will be used.  If  LANG
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45       If gettxt fails to retrieve a message in  the  requested  language,  it
46       will  try  to  retrieve the same message from /usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MES‐
47       SAGES/ msgfile. If this also fails, and if dflt_msg is present and non-
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EXAMPLES

53       Example 1 The environment variables LANG and LC_MESSAGES.
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60         example% gettxt UX:10 "hello world\n"
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65       will try to retrieve the 10th  message  from  /usr/lib/locale/C/UX/msg‐
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

71       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment  variables
72       that affect the execution of gettxt: LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES.
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74       LC_CTYPE        Determines how gettxt handles characters. When LC_CTYPE
75                       is set to a valid value, gettxt can display and  handle
76                       text and filenames containing valid characters for that
77                       locale. gettxt can display  and  handle  Extended  Unix
78                       Code  (EUC)  characters  where any individual character
79                       can be 1, 2, or 3 bytes wide. gettxt  can  also  handle
80                       EUC  characters  of 1, 2, or more column widths. In the
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84       LC_MESSAGES     Determines how diagnostic and informative messages  are
85                       presented.  This includes the language and style of the
86                       messages, and the correct form of affirmative and nega‐
87                       tive  responses.   In  the "C" locale, the messages are
88                       presented in the default  form  found  in  the  program
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93       /usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES/*
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ATTRIBUTES

104       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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109       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
110       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
111       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
112       │Availability                 │SUNWloc                      │
113       │CSI                          │Enabled                      │
114       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

117       exstr(1),    mkmsgs(1),    srchtxt(1),    gettxt(3C),    setlocale(3C),
118       attributes(5), environ(5)
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122SunOS 5.11                        20 Dec 1996                        gettxt(1)
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