Google Translate
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
hola
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allow multiword translations Show Sample Output
8translate() { 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/'; } -
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
5wget -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 -
translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language>works from command line2cmd=$( 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" -
Translates a string from English to Portuguese by using google translator web service. Show Sample Output
1curl -s -A "Mozilla" "http://translate.google.com.br/translate_a/t?client=t&text=Hi+world&hl=pt-BR&sl=en&tl=pt&multires=1&ssel=0&tsel=0&sc=1" | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' -
translate <some phrase> [output-language] [source-language]1) "some phrase" should be in quotes 2) [output-language] - optional (default: English) 3) [source-language] - optional (default: auto)translate "bonjour petit lapin"hello little rabbittranslate "bonjour petit lapin" enhello little rabbittranslate "bonjour petit lapin" en frhello little rabbit Show Sample Output1translate(){wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "https://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?client=t&sl=${3:-auto}&tl=${2:-en}&dt=t&q=$1" | cut -d'"' -f2}
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translate(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hi&langpair=$(curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/detect?v=1.0&q=$1" | sed 's/.*"language":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1^C/')%7C$2" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'Will fetch the source language for you.translate(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hi&langpair=$(curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/detect?v=1.0&q=$1" | sed 's/.*"language":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1^C/')%7C$2" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'; }translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=%7C${2:-en}" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'; }translate(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=`perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$1"`&langpair=`if [ "$3" != "" ]; then echo $2; fi;`%7C`if [ "$3" == "" ]; then echo $2; else echo $3; fi;`" | sed 's/{"responseData": {"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}, .*}/\1\n/'; }