debian man page for 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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