Habla Usted Englese?

[justapeon]

Think it is neat that we can use the world of computers to translate languages even from the command line. Opens up a whole new world without ever leaving your computer. This what we did.

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install wget

Translating words from the command line: (for example from italian to english.

$ ./lc.sh “Ti voglio molto bene” it en

Love you very much

$

$ ./lc.sh “Ti voglio molto bene” it zh

非常爱你

$

lc.sh

#!/bin/bash
if test -z $3; then
        echo "Usage: $0 \"<str>\" <lang1> <lang2>"
        echo "Translates string \"<str>\" from <lang1> to <lang2>"
        echo "(CLI frontend to Google Translate)"
else
wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-$3}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';
fi
echo ""

Edited August 25, 2011 by justapeon