man translate (Commandes) - translate looks up for words in a dictionary
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).