gettxt(1)                  (Essential Utilities)                  gettxt(1)


   NAME
         gettxt - retrieve a text string from a message data base

   SYNOPSIS
         gettxt msgfile:msgnum [dflt_msg]

   DESCRIPTION
         gettxt retrieves a text string from a message file in the directory
         /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESSAGES.  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/LCMESSAGES 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 ASCII 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.

         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/LCMESSAGES.  You control which directory is
         searched by setting the environment variable LCMESSAGES.  If
         LCMESSAGES 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/LCMESSAGES.

         If gettxt fails to retrieve a message in the requested language, it
         will try to retrieve the same message from
         /usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESSAGES/msgfile.  If this also fails, and if
         dflt_msg is present and non-null, then it will display the value of
         dflt_msg; if dflt_msg is not present or is null, then it will display
         the string Message not found!!.

   EXAMPLE
         If the environment variables LANG or LCMESSAGES 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/UX/msgfile.  If the retrieval fails, the message
         "hello world," followed by a new-line, will be displayed.





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   FILES
         /usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESSAGES/*         default message files created
                                                 by mkmsgs(1)
         /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESSAGES/*    message files for different
                                                 languages created by
                                                 mkmsgs(1)

   SEE ALSO
         exstr(1), mkmsgs(1), srchtxt(1).
         gettxt(3C), setlocale(3C) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.











































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