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TRANSLATE(1) General Commands Manual TRANSLATE(1)

translate - looks up for words in a dictionary

translate [options] words

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.

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

xtranslate

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

Jochem Huhmann <jochem@revier.com> wrote translate. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).