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# pocommentclean

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

## Prerequisites

- sed

## 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