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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

AUTOPOINT(1)                  User Commands                  AUTOPOINT(1)

NAME         top

       autopoint - copies standard gettext infrastructure

SYNOPSIS         top

       autopoint [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION         top

       Copies standard gettext infrastructure files into a source
       package.

OPTIONS         top

       --help print this help and exit

       --version
              print version information and exit

       -f, --force
              force overwriting of files that already exist

       -n, --dry-run
              print modifications but don't perform them

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Bruno Haible

REPORTING BUGS         top

       Report bugs in the bug tracker at
       <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to
       <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2002-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License
       GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
       <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO         top

       The full documentation for autopoint is maintained as a Texinfo
       manual.  If the info and autopoint programs are properly installed
       at your site, the command

              info autopoint

       should give you access to the complete manual.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the gettext (message translation) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, see
       ⟨http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext/⟩.  This page was
       obtained from the tarball gettext-0.26.tar.gz fetched from
       ⟨https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/⟩ on 2025-08-11.  If you discover
       any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
       or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
       mail to man-pages@man7.org

GNU gettext-tools 0.26          July 2025                    AUTOPOINT(1)

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