Commands tagged translate (12)

  • Google Translate

    Usage: translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language> Example: translate hello en es See this for a list of language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes Show Sample Output


    65
    translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }
    matthewbauer · 2010-03-08 03:15:48 85
  • Google Translate

    allow multiword translations Show Sample Output


    8
    translate() { lng1="$1";lng2="$2";shift;shift; wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=${@// /+}&langpair=$lng1|$lng2" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }
    bandie91 · 2010-05-02 22:15:30 36
  • Google Translate

    substitute "example" with desired string; tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...); you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine) Show Sample Output


    5
    wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=translation+example&sl=auto&tl=fr" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1
    sairon · 2011-03-06 13:46:16 109
  • foo <--> german translation with dict.leo.org

    Translate strings from non-german to german (and vice versa) using LEO. Put it in your ~/.bashrc. Usage: leo words   To use another language other than english, use an option: leo -xx words Valid language options: ch - chinese en - english es - spanish fr - french it - italian pl - polish pt - portuguese ru - russian The other language will always be german! Show Sample Output


    4
    leo (){ l="en"; if [ "${1:0:1}" = "-" ]; then l=${1:1:2};shift;fi;Q="$*";curl -s "https://dict.leo.org/${l}de/?search=${Q// /%20}" | html2text | sed -e '0,/H.ufigste .*/d;/Weitere Aktionen/,$d;/f.r Sie .*:/,$d' | grep -aEA900 '^\*{5} .*$'; }
    michelsberg · 2013-06-24 22:35:46 29
  • Google Translate

    translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language> works from command line


    2
    cmd=$( wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; ); echo "$cmd"
    dtolj · 2010-03-13 01:09:00 50
  • Google Translate

    translate <some phrase> [output-language] [source-language] 1) "some phrase" should be in quotes 2) [output-language] - optional (default: English) 3) [source-language] - optional (default: auto) translate "bonjour petit lapin" hello little rabbit translate "bonjour petit lapin" en hello little rabbit translate "bonjour petit lapin" en fr hello little rabbit Show Sample Output


    1
    translate(){wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "https://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?client=t&sl=${3:-auto}&tl=${2:-en}&dt=t&q=$1" | cut -d'"' -f2}
    klisanor · 2014-06-10 12:08:51 11
  • Have Google Translate speak to you using your local speakers

    Put the string above in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, then source the file. Make sure your sound output is working, you have mplayer installed, then type in a word or sentence similar to below: say "why won't anyone talk to me?" It's easy to get the language to be different by changing the "en" in the string to be "de" or some other language that Google Translate supports. Have multiple "say" functions, like "say-en" "say-de", etc. Show Sample Output


    0
    function say { mplayer -really-quiet "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1"; }
    tikal808 · 2011-12-16 20:56:40 3
  • Change a file to upper case

    Translates first set into second set Show Sample Output


    0
    tr a-z A-Z < file.txt
    ankush108 · 2012-06-26 18:52:41 4
  • english <--> german translation with dict.leo.org

    1. There is no use of '--color=auto' in front of a pipe--instead with '--color=always' grep will mark the section headings. 2. I suppose the use of grep with '-A 900' or '-B 900' respectively a 'dirty trick'--sed can do 'exactly' what we want, however, grep does the nice colouring (see 1.) 3. Cutting of the tail (everthing starting with 'Weitere Aktionen') first leads to no output if leo doesn't no the translation. Show Sample Output


    0
    leo () { lang=en; IFS=+; Q="${*// /%20}"; curl -s "https://dict.leo.org/${lang}de/?search=${Q//+/%20}" | html2text | sed -e '/Weitere Aktionen/,$d' | grep --color=auto --color=always -EA 900 '^\*{5} .*$' }
    jandclilover · 2015-01-09 13:58:36 8
  • displays the uptime in a friendly way

    useful for human readable reports Show Sample Output


    0
    echo "$HOSTNAME restarted $(uptime | tr , ' ' | awk '{print $3" "$4}') ago"
    forestb · 2015-11-20 19:25:15 10
  • translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal

    Translate the X selection from German to English. The tw program is available from Savannah: http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/savannah/twandgtw/ I'm posting this because the base Debian system also does not include curl.


    -1
    tw translate.google.com.de-en `xsel`
    dbbolton · 2010-06-11 22:28:28 5
  • Google Translate

    Change lang from ru to something else. Curl version - Mac OS etc, any system w/o wget. Show Sample Output


    -1
    translate () {lang="ru"; text=`echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g'`; curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=$text&sl=auto&tl=$lang" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1}
    2b · 2014-07-10 18:26:34 9

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