I'm not sure if it's been put in but what about dictd? aptitude install dict-freedict-eng-spa dict dictd then from the command line: dict -d fd-eng-spa [word] and it will return the word you wanted, found in the spanish dictionary...
-- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog And just when you thought you've seen it all, along comes a Lambda four foot tall On Sun November 9 2008 09:29:03 pm jdawg wrote: > Tuna wrote: > >> Kurt Granroth wrote: > >>> jdawg wrote: > >>>> I am wanting to do a quick way to get english-spanish/spanish-english > >>>> translation ultimately from the command line. > >>>> > >>>> As a first step, I tried this: > >>>> wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado' > >>>> > >>>> and I got this back: > >>>> ---------- error ----------- > >>>> --08:49:36-- http://translate.google.com/translate_t > >>>> => `translate_t' > >>>> Resolving translate.google.com... 74.125.95.113, 74.125.95.100, > >>>> 74.125.95.101, ... > >>>> Connecting to translate.google.com|74.125.95.113|:80... connected. > >>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden > >>>> 08:49:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden. > >>>> ---------- end of error ---------- > >>>> > >>>> So does anyone know a site where I can do this kind of thing. all the > >>>> ones I have found so far, won't let you do it. > >>> > >>> The output for that would be tricky to handle, even if it did work, > >>> since that URL returns a fully formatted HTML page. You would have to > >>> do a lot of HTML parsing from the command line. > >>> > >>> A far better route would be to use the Google API. > >>> > >>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/ > >>> > >>> The docs they have there are all Javascript specific, but at the core, > >>> it's all just JSON formatted requests and responses over HTTP. 'wget' > >>> and 'sed' should be able to make quick work of them. If not, maybe you > >>> could create a couple line perl wrapper? > >>> > >>> Here's some example uses of the Google API (not the language one, but > >>> the concept is identical) in other languages: > >>> > >>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/index.html#fonje_s > >>>nippets > >> > >> And, to follow up to myself, here is an example using curl and sed. > >> wget works just as well... I used curl here only because it's one > >> command line option easier to output to stdout: > >> > >> $ curl --silent > >> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hel > >>lo&langpair=en%7Ces" > >> > >> | sed -e 's,^.*translatedText":",,g' -e 's,"}.*$,,g' > >> > >> hola > >> > >> Kurt > > > > My friend wrote a python script that does all this. Some IRC'ers in here > > will remember bobsalad, he uses this script now. > > > > http://www.coderprofile.com/networks/source-codes/521/google-translator-s > >cript > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > haven't had much to do with python yet (turned off by the block > indentation thing), mostly a perl and bash guy. > but I thank you for the url of above. this is what I really hoped for. > > something like this works just fine > i will write my own bash script to translate all kinds of text using > this technique. > > it works as expected in the other direction: > > curl --silent > "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=pavime >ntada%20primario&langpair=es%7Cen" > > jerry
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