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
- -n
-
non-interactive (don't prompt if no matches found)
- -i
-
invers lookup (from second to first language)
- -w
-
searches only whole words
- -l
-
languages to translate between
- -C
-
disable (automatic) color highlighting
- -v
-
display version and exit
- -h, --help
-
display help
EXAMPLE
- translate -l en-de simplest
SEE ALSO
ding
FILES
translate's preferred language and is stored in /etc/translate.conf. You can store your private configuration file in ~/.translate/translate.conf. If there are no options in the commandline it uses the default values de-en.
It can also create a private dictionary in the ~/.translate/ directory, e.g. ~/.translate/de-en for the default language combination.
AUTHOR
Jochem Huhmann <[email protected]> initially wrote translate. The Debian Project took over maintenance of translate since version 0.6. It is currently maintained by Axel Beckert <[email protected]> on https://salsa.debian.org/debian/translate.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).