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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