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<span id="id1"></span><h1>pocommentclean<a class="headerlink" href="#pocommentclean" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>pocommentclean will remove all translator comments from a directory of PO
files.</p>
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<span id="pocommentclean-prerequisites"></span><h2>Prerequisites<a class="headerlink" href="#prerequisites" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/sed">sed</a></li>
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<span id="pocommentclean-usage"></span><h2>Usage<a class="headerlink" href="#usage" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>pocommentclean [--backup] <po></pre>
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<p>Where:</p>
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<td>is a directory of existing PO files that you want to clean</td>
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<p>Options:</p>
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<kbd><span class="option">--backup</span></kbd></td>
<td>Create a backup file for each PO file converted, .po.bak</td></tr>
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<span id="pocommentclean-operation"></span><h2>Operation<a class="headerlink" href="#operation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Using sed pocommentclean will delete all lines starting with # but which are
not standard Gettext PO format lines. So it won’t delete developer comments
(#.), obsolete messages (#~), flags (#,) or locations (#:).</p>
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<span id="pocommentclean-bugs"></span><h2>Bugs<a class="headerlink" href="#bugs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>pocommentclean cannot clean individual PO files, it only cleans directories</p>
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