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)

-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 others).