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 <jochem@revier.com> initially wrote translate. The Debian Project took over maintenance of translate since version 0.6. It is currently maintained by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> on https://salsa.debian.org/debian/translate.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).