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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 english-german dictionary and is able to translate in both directions.

OPTIONS

non-interactive (don't prompt if no matches found)
invers lookup (from second to first language)
languages to translate between
display version and exit
searches only whole words

EXAMPLE

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 others).