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translate

TRANSLATE(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 TRANSLATE(1)

NAME

       translate - looks up for words in a dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       translate [options] words

DESCRIPTION

       translate looks up for words in a dictionary and translates them.  It can handle multiple dictionaries and charsets.  It comes with an eng-
       lish-german dictionary and is able to translate in both directions.

OPTIONS

       -n     non-interactive (don't prompt if no matches found)

       -i     invers lookup (from second to first language)

       -l     languages to translate between

       -v     display version and exit

       -w     searches only whole words

       -h display help

EXAMPLE

       translate -l en-de simplest

SEE ALSO

       xtranslate

FILES

       translate preferred language and is stored in /etc/translate.conf You can store your private configuration file in ~/.translate.  If  there
       are no options in the commandline it uses the default values de-en.

       It can also create a private dictionary in ~/.translate

AUTHOR

       Jochem  Huhmann <jochem@revier.com> wrote translate.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by oth-
       ers).

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