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[bug #59190] Please add a MSGEXEC_MSGSTR variable to msgexec


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: [bug #59190] Please add a MSGEXEC_MSGSTR variable to msgexec
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 09:46:08 -0400 (EDT)
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Follow-up Comment #3, bug #59190 (project gettext):

> perhaps a file descriptor?
Well, what I said is that it is passed through file descriptor 0.

msgexec is meant to be useful for scripts that modify a translation in some
way. In the decades-long Unix practice, commands that do modifications take
their input on stdin and produce their output on stdout. The most well-known
examples are sed and awk.

> The url you cite does not explain this - or at best does so only very
tangentially.

It says in the very first paragraph: "The command can be any program that
reads a translation from standard input. It is invoked once for each
translation."

How would you like to see it formulated?

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