====== pocommentclean ======

pocommentclean will remove all translator comments from a directory of PO files.

===== Prerequisites =====

  * [[man>sed]]

===== Latest Version =====

pocommentclean is not currently distributed as part of the toolkit.  You can get the [[http://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/translate/src/trunk/tools/pocommentclean|latest version from Subversion]]

===== Usage =====

pocommentclean [--backup] <po>

Where:
| po           | is a directory of existing PO files that you want to clean  |

Options:
| -- backup  | Create a backup file for each PO file converted, .po.bak  |

===== Operation =====

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 (#:).

===== Bugs =====

pocommentclean cannot clean individual PO files, it only cleans directories